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  1. Weststander

    [Travel] Car brakes - a recommended garage, please

    With hands like dinner plates he needed feeding, he came for the grub.
  2. Weststander

    [Travel] Car brakes - a recommended garage, please

    We used the services of Rapid Autos today, just £230 for front brake pads and a new battery. Caffyns quoted £350 for the pads, £200 for the battery. Great service too and it was nice going through a photo of Albion players circa 1980 at a recent-ish renunion, with the guy.
  3. Weststander

    [Travel] Car brakes - a recommended garage, please

    :lolol: I’ve never really been mugged by main dealers. The service today was just £200+, I was using them in a way to identify things. The car hadn’t been looked at or looked after, bar MOT’s, since pre Pandemic. I knew issues would be accumulating! I was told the same story you tell a long...
  4. Weststander

    [Travel] Car brakes - a recommended garage, please

    Do they expertly replace timing belts and car batteries too? Caffyns gave us (it’s Mrs.W’s little city car) a £four-figure shopping list.
  5. Weststander

    [Travel] Car brakes - a recommended garage, please

    Funnily enough, I used them for both family cars for the entire 90’s and 00’s. They were brake specialists, Better Brakes I think, then they morphed into another trade name? I spent many a time sitting in their waiting room, with soft porn motor industry calendars hanging in the office. Such a...
  6. Weststander

    [Travel] Car brakes - a recommended garage, please

    Thanks, I'll give them a call. I recall nsc'ers recommending them years back, I think we used them.
  7. Weststander

    [Travel] Car brakes - a recommended garage, please

    Hi nsc folk. Any recommendations for a garage in the Shoreham to Brighton area, to replace front brake pads on a VW? Got a predictably high quote from the main dealer. Looking for far better value. My instinct is to avoid Brake Bros :)

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