, bought for £34, fitted in an hour with the bro' in law. Hard to justify the price I think? That's well over £200+ saved on just the front/rear pads/fitment alone. I realise some don't have the facility or know anybody who will help.....here's a good enough incentive to find someone!

Moan over.......

I fully agree with you, the stealers are modern day highwaymen and i for one wont bow down to them. a have the ability to do many service and repair jobs on cars and are more than willing to help anyone who needs advice.
If I can help I will as i have many times already.

superspark wrote:

I fully agree with you, the stealers are modern day highwaymen and i for one wont bow down to them. a have the ability to do many service and repair jobs on cars and are more than willing to help anyone who needs advice.
If I can help I will as i have many times already.

Fair play to you My car is out of warranty in a few weeks, so i've already ordered a full service kit for approx' £50 which consists of mainly genuine parts, just need to get the oil and in a few months time i'll be knocking on my brother's door with a case of beers in my hand doing my best impession of puss n' boots from shrek and i'll save another £200+

I dont blame you mate, ive just serviced mine for a fraction of the cost at the stealers. Funny though, they never even bothered to ring me up and tell me the service was due. The service date was over two months ago At their prices they wouldnt of got the work

If I was looking to sell the car in the near future I would have the work done at a main dealer but i'm expecting to still have it when it'll have very high mileage....you won't recouperate the costs of this overcharging when selling the car I would doubt

So far I've recently saved/will have saved the following..............

£160.00 on four tyres (same Goodyear Wranglers)
£110.00 rear disc pads
£130.00 front disc pads
£280.00 service

£680.00 toal less a beer or two where necessary, for very basic items. It's a huge saving and I welcome it at the moment Not only that I have more faith in 'our Dave' as he is a well qaulified diesel fitter who could do this sort of thing in his sleep, he's very thorough too. My only problem will arise if some diagnostic work needs doing but i'd have to pay a main dealer/independant now as the warranty is out.

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Hi Dunk, how many miles did you have on your car before you changed the front and rear discs? did you replace them all at the same time?. If your planning on keeping your car a long time like me then you might be interested in buying one of these, have a look, tell me what you think, could save a fortune in the long run. Go to this web site and scroll down to you find your car with full coverage, you might be amazed https://blackbox-solutions.com/shop/

superspark wrote:

Hi Dunk, how many miles did you have on your car before you changed the front and rear discs? did you replace them all at the same time?. If your planning on keeping your car a long time like me then you might be interested in buying one of these, have a look, tell me what you think, could save a fortune in the long run. Go to this web site and scroll down to you find your car with full coverage, you might be amazed https://blackbox-solutions.com/shop/

Sorry SS, just edited my post to correct......was both front and rear disc pad replacement, not discs. Replaced the rears at approx' 38,000 and the fronts at 49,000 miles. Thanks for the link to the site, looks interesting

No problem. I was looking at the faultmate for the FL2 with full capablity. Its a lot of money but the benifites of telling the dealer or garage exactly what you want replaced insted of them charging a fortune puts a smile on my face. The most easy things can be replaced by ourselves.

Blackbox solutions is a Disco3 sponsor  Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

Npinks, it may be a disco 3 sponsor which i didnt know but the tools they have for the freelander 2 are second to none. In my ref to this site was for diagnostic tools and software directly to do with freelander 2 only. I have not mentioned the site for any other purpose

No problem at all

Just thought I would mention it as sometimes where there's a sponsor there's a discount

And you never know, if those now out of warranty are going to tinker, then they might sponsor freel2 if interest comes along Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis