5th Service

[HouseSpider]

... Only difference is no new car smell.

https://www.halfords.com/motoring/car-a ... 20258.html

Lol

[TEB]

My MOT falls a couple of months before the service is due, and I've just had the local independent undertake the work; 10 minutes down the road compared to well over an hour to the Mazda dealer. I also asked them to inspect the rear brakes beforehand, as the discs were looking somewhat corroded from what I could see of them. Suspected the pads might not be moving as freely as they should due to dry, or possibly gummed up sliders, which is an issue I've experienced with a couple of previous cars and rear brakes.

Unfortunately they found heavy corrosion on the inner disc faces and the pads were worn to less than 3mm and had to be hammered out, so all replaced. The car has covered just over 19k miles, though I suspect the corrosion may be partly down to the very little use the car had during the pandemic with its first owner, going by the service records.

Otherwise it went straight through its MOT afterwards with a clean bill of health. Its 5th service is due in December, though this will done by the Mazda dealer I bought it from, as I took out a service plan at the time.

Oh, reliability wise, not so great in my first year of ownership, new battery, DC/DC converter, Capacitor, wing mirror motor, door lock, plus corrosion repair to the rear hatch and four new tyres as the factory ones had prematurely perished. Along with slight corrosion on the roof and under the bonnet around the front bump stops, which I've not dealt with, other than a coating of lanoguard around the bump stops, when I did the underside with the stuff.

Just found a photo sent by the garage of the discs which I'd missed.

[Dogfuzz]

Might I politely ask what you paid the specialist for the pads and discs work plse
With my car having done 22,000 and a recent verbal caution from my local garage that the brake pads were a “little low” ,I’m anticipating a similar brake maintenance bill as yours in the next couple of months. That is if I take them up on their other recomendation to change the discs too. I might or might not swallow the latter.

[TEB]

Might I politely ask what you paid the specialist for the pads and discs work plse
With my car having done 22,000 and a recent verbal caution from my local garage that the brake pads were a “little low” ,I’m anticipating a similar brake maintenance bill as yours in the next couple of months. That is if I take them up on their other recomendation to change the discs too. I might or might not swallow the latter.

The local garage charged £217 for the MOT, supplying/fitting new rear discs & pads, plus recalibration of the electronic handbrake.

[Percy247]

Is there a correlation between having an electronic parking brake and increased disc and pad wear? I Seem to remember an old focus of ours with an EPB used to eat rear pads and discs.

It's worth giving the brakes a decent work out once or twice a month otherwise the rears start to corrode as they apply a lot less braking force.

[TEB]

Is there a correlation between having an electronic parking brake and increased disc and pad wear? I Seem to remember an old focus of ours with an EPB used to eat rear pads and discs.

It's worth giving the brakes a decent work out once or twice a month otherwise the rears start to corrode as they apply a lot less braking force.

This is my first car with an EPB, though I don't believe its caused this wear/corrosion, as I've experienced a similar issue with a previous Skoda and Fiat with conventional handbrakes, in both cases it was down to dry/gummed up sliders effecting the movement of the pads/calliper, and indeed the garage did suggest the pads were seized into the callipers and had to be hammered out.

I live in fairly hilly part of the world, so the brakes do get relied upon regularly, and our other car a V40 has not had this issue, likewise its low mileage for its age and the original rear discs/pads were replaced due to wear at 30k miles, rather than corrosion.