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Renault Megane

  • 09-11-2015 10:12am
    #1
    jezzer
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,030 ✭✭✭


    Folks, Renault Megane, brake discs, pads calipers gone, literally has no brakes, how much would this cost to fix?


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  • #2
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Get, mechanic, to come out. You cannot drive with no brakes.
    Cost, maybe, 100 depending.


  • #3
    jezzer
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,030 ✭✭✭jezzer


    biko wrote: »
    Get, mechanic, to come out. You cannot drive with no brakes.
    Cost, maybe, 100 depending.

    great thanks


  • #4
    YbFocus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,480 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    You need to replace everything front and back?

    Pads are 30-40 a set so we'll say 80
    Discs are 50 each or so usually 200
    Calipers I'm not sure on, 80 or so. . 320

    600 + labour if you are changing everything wouldn't be a bad guess, what went wrong that this is the case?


  • #5
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,195 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    YbFocus wrote: »
    ...what went wrong that this is the case?

    At an educated guess, I'd say driving with the pads down to the steel causing overheating, thus taking out what was left of the discs and roasting every seal and bit of grease in the calipers, causing them to bind and thus generating even more heat, seizing them solid.


  • #6
    jezzer
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,030 ✭✭✭jezzer


    oh dear, 600+ its an 04 megane, prob better off scrapping it?


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  • #7
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,195 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    jezzer wrote: »
    oh dear, 600+ its an 04 megane, prob better off scrapping it?

    Are the front and back brakes in the same condition?


  • #8
    jezzer
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,030 ✭✭✭jezzer


    jimgoose wrote: »
    Are the front and back brakes in the same condition?

    yes


  • #9
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,195 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    jezzer wrote: »
    yes

    Blergh. Well, look at it this way - that should be all the brake work it'll need for a good long time.


  • #10
    duffman3833
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,037 ✭✭✭duffman3833


    jimgoose wrote: »
    Blergh. Well, look at it this way - that should be all the brake work it'll need for a good long time.

    If there nothing else wrong with car and has long NCT id invest in the brakes and keep the car, if you buy another one you may have to spend just as much to get it right.


  • #11
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Tbh OP, get a mechanic to look at it and then give you a quote.
    It seems to me you're guessing when you say discs and pads are gone.


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  • #12
    jezzer
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,030 ✭✭✭jezzer


    biko wrote: »
    Tbh OP, get a mechanic to look at it and then give you a quote.
    It seems to me you're guessing when you say discs and pads are gone.

    true, but i can see that they have worn away and when the car is on motion it wont stop


  • #13
    YbFocus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,480 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    jezzer wrote: »
    true, but i can see that they have worn away and when the car is on motion it wont stop

    It could need bleeding etc.
    You are jumping to conclusions.

    Get a mechanic to come out and check it.


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