Price for Discs / Pads / fluid etc for A class (A210 AMG)

[A210AMG]

Hello,


Just rang our local garge that services the wifes A class as we were pointed out last time the discs are getting low.

He just quoted £302.59 inc Vat for Discs, pads, fluid and the cables.


Is this about right. They are drilled discs which I guess adds a bit of cost?


Think I will ring the stealer to have a laugh.


Thanks

 

[television]

In an MB dealer this morning the charged a 202 owner £457 for a new MAF that included 1 hour labour

 

[A210AMG]

Malcolm,

Is that a good price, bigger job?

I may look at doing it ourselfs, remember when my dad had a 500sec we did them and saved a packet

 

[malcolm E53 AMG]

Sounds a reasonable price assuming that all parts are OE quality. Might be worth asking whats being fitted in that respect. The same replacement parts and tasks performed by a dealer for an E class would total somewhere between £500-600. Not the same car I know but as yours is an AMG version this will probably add a 25% premium to brake and suspension parts.

 

[tiswas]

Hi

Read this and various other threads with interest as my 99 SL is still squealing like a pig! Told its a lip on the discs, probably caused by non Merc pads.

I have a local garage, good, reasonable price and I trust them, but he thinks he can only source direct from Merc and not his usual brake suppliers. I dont know who makes Merc brakes, Bosch or whatever, but is this right and am I only going to end up saving on labour rates if he has to buy from Merc?

Thanks

Rob

 

[jberks]

I've had non MB pads and to be honest I won't again.
I got squeals and as the metal plate wasn't quite as accdurately made as OEM, I got clunks when moving forward and backwards. Ok it stopped perfectly well but it wasn't right. For the cost difference, I insist on proper MB parts.

 

[bigasotonuk]

Hi,
Have used non genuine pads and discs all round on my c230k for over 100,000 miles and absolutelty no complaints at all sourced from eurocar-parts i always bought the better quality ones if there was a choice.

 

[television]

Hi,
Have used non genuine pads and discs all round on my c230k for over 100,000 miles and absolutelty no complaints at all sourced from eurocar-parts i always bought the better quality ones if there was a choice.

The same with me, I bought my ventilated disc for the V70R in Sweden for £10 each and they have been great

 

[tiswas]

Hi

Well, I contacted Eurocar Parts myself and ordered the discs and pads for my SL. They turned up at the garage who was going to fit them for me but, as the garage had warned, the discs were much smaller than the discs currently on my car despite Euro telling me they were the right ones on the phone. My garage got on to them and they ended up providing Merc parts at virtually three times the price of what they had previously quoted me.

What the f### is going on?

Rob

 

[BlackC55]

What SL? 129, 230?

 

[tiswas]

1999 280 SL, whatever that may be!

I subsequently checked the price for the parts from Merc, and Euro had loaded the price considerably, but have now agreed to refund their surcharge under threat from me and my garage. So, in summary, my discs are a lot bigger than anything that my garage could get hold of - other than by sourcing them direct freom Merc.

Rob, confused and somewhat dazed. 8

 

[tiswas]

Talk to me someone?

I know I am a pain but why have I got this problem that Euro could only get discs big enough for my 1999 SL by going to Merc direct and they could not supply an alternative themselves?

I have lost the squeal at the front but still have a squeal when reversing, I think from the back wheels. Is the braking action that much different then when reversing, other than the obvious that the wheels are going in a different direction?

I am hoping that glazing is a solution for this problem as discussed on another thread.

 

[Mr Teddy Bear]

Sounds as if yours is a non standard configuration.
Euro do a sale or return policy unless you order some thing special drilled or grooved disks for example. However your saying yours is a different size?
thats confusing.
Is it a AMG or something?

 

[tiswas]

My garage refers to them as being AMG spec, a suspicion more than a fact as he is not franchised, but it is a standard 280 SL so far as I am aware.

 

[television]

Squeeling is when the brake pads resonate to make the noise, the correct copper greasing should take the noise away, interestingly that MB say put the grease onto the piston faces and not the pads

 

[jonathanjhann]

If this were not such a saftey critical area it would be laughable!
Why go to the bother of buying an A210, more powerful than standard AMG version of the A class, then scimp and save on buying non standard brake parts????

Its unbelievable that someone wishes to deviate from the manufacturers tried and tested pad material and disc composition on such an important component.

And the wifes car too! If it were me, accept your'e driving a performance car and performance cars cost more money to maintain!

And sleep better knowing you have not risked a braking failure or lack of performance. The roads are dangerous enough as it is.

 

[Mr Teddy Bear]

Its perfectly acceptable to source brake components from Euro, ATE etc arw all OEM STANDARD kit. As all pattern vehicle parts sold in the EU should be!

 

[Ellsy Tanners]

I would agree with johnny boy!! Big boys toys do inevatively cost big boys money.

 

[Bolide]

Its unbelievable that someone wishes to deviate from the manufacturers tried and tested pad material and disc composition on such an important component

I say this all the time but few on the forums take it seriously. Any opportunity to "save" £20 and people will take it

Nick Froome
www.w124.co.uk

 

[television]

This argument has been on going for a long time. If we know who makes what and for who, and that is what block exemption is all about then why pay more, for the same thing in a different box.

So we could also soon be saying dont go to an indie, have the parts fitted by a geuine dealer