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    Default i just lost all brakes

    i was driving up the road this afternoon when my rear wheel cylinder popped!! resulting in no rear brakes and going up the kerb to miss an oncomming car

    now i've had the shoes cylinders,drum,cable and adjusters replaced 3 months ago to get it through the mot and the shoes have gone down to bear metal and scored the drums as well as the cylinder popping due to the shoes being over adjusted...are the garage liable for the repair costs?

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    suppose it depends on what mileage you've done, you would certainly have a case against the manufacturer of the parts i should think.

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    If it was all fitted by a garage & receipts are still available for presentation. Yes you have comeback I should think.

    Theres often a stipulation that any parts carry 12 months warranty etc

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    12 months manufacturers warranty is a statutory right anyway.

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    sounds like they didnt fit new ones, was it the same garage that did it?, did you see them fit them?, i had the same froblem with my G.F car they didnt fit new ones and passed it through the mot.

    a year later when it came to the mot it failed on the same thing when she had only done no more than 1K miles (slowly). Get the garage to write a report of some sort saying the condition of the brakes as hard proof and confront them, if they are still being idiots tell anybody and everybody that that garage is ****

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    yes they were replaced as i marked the existing ones before i took it into them and asked for the old ones back after

    ok here's a couple of pics of how it looked after i took it apart




    quite disconcerting wouldn't you agree

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    didnt u hear a grinding noise or didnt the car feel like it was pulling back if the brakes was on havent damaged nothing else have u going into the kerb

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    Quote Originally Posted by ad4m
    didnt u hear a grinding noise or didnt the car feel like it was pulling back if the brakes was on havent damaged nothing else have u going into the kerb
    there was a noise but as the front discs are warped it didin't sound any differet aslo with the noise from the cam can't really hear anything

    luckiy i didn't damage the car

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