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Sam
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3rd Aug 10 at 14:24   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
... to change front and rear discs & pads on something like a Calibra/Vectra sized car?
VrsTurbo
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Depends?
Tools you have.....

If you had 4 axel stands - 1.5hours
Sam
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OK well assuming you have every tool required to get the job done easily and quickly?
Marc
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Couple of hours.
Ojc
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Depends, if the right tools and no bolts are rounded off or rusted on then quite quickly.
LeeM
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With a lift and the right tools I'd say half an hour
Scotty C
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About an hour
Scotty C
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Why how much u been charged?
tom_simes
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With a lift, I'd suggest about an hour.

With a jack and axle stands, probably closer to two.
DaveyLC
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Depends what car it is too.. Wind out calipers, two pots, single pots?
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6 years to an hour or 2
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45mins a corner, including jacking the car up each time and dooby rolling/smoking time
AlexW
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If a garage is doing it, about 4 hours. Well, that is how much will be shown on the invoice.
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if i was to quote for the job - i'd say 3hrs....

You have to get the car off the ground (lift) (drive on, get out, lift, secure) - 5mins
Remove 4 wheels - 10mins (1min a wheel + plus walking, moving wheels, locating nuts)
Remove 4 calipers - change pads (10mins a calipers give or take some rusty/stuck parts) - 40mins
Replace 4 discs - 20mins
Replace 4 calipers - 20mins
Check all is well before wheel goes on - 5mins
Replace 4 wheels - 10mins
Get off ramp and torque wheel nuts - 5mins

just short of two hours using my rough n ready guide allowing for no problems

[Edited on 03-08-2010 by AK]
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quote:
Originally posted by LeeM
With a lift and the right tools I'd say half an hour


you should get a job in F1
Scotty C
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quote:
Originally posted by AK
quote:
Originally posted by LeeM
With a lift and the right tools I'd say half an hour


you should get a job in F1


Was thinking the same

[Edited on 03-08-2010 by Scotty C]
Andrew
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I did the front discs and pads on my pug 307 in the dark using basic tools in 1.5 hrs.

Passed it's mot
LeeM
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quote:
Originally posted by Scotty C
quote:
Originally posted by AK
quote:
Originally posted by LeeM
With a lift and the right tools I'd say half an hour


you should get a job in F1


Was thinking the same

[Edited on 03-08-2010 by Scotty C]


That's the aim, I am doing motorsport engineering
LeeM
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But yeah maybe half hour is a little optimistic, maybe 45 minutes. Can do fronts in half an hour easily
AlunJ
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If everything went to plan... I could probably do fronts in half hour - an hour
Graham88
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Did the front discs and pads on my MPS in an hour, but had trouble with the caliper as I'd never seen one like it so reckon it would have been about 30-40 minutes.

AK I noticed you quoted 20 mins to change the discs, but they just slide off and new ones slide on, 20 seconds more like?
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You have to degrease them first so thats some time wasted there, and the swearing as you smack the old ones off and then the copper grease. All adds up.
Graham88
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Mine came straight off with one hit and new ones straight on, I don't fuck about
SnK
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quote:
Originally posted by jbguitarking
You have to degrease them first so thats some time wasted there, and the swearing as you smack the old ones off and then the copper grease. All adds up.



Your also ment to scrub off the rust/corrosion on the hub face then grease. Although greasing the hub face isn't necessary.
I think at work we quote roughly 3hours to do discs and pads front and rear. Depending what car obv.
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exactly -

You want the garage to be cheap - but on the flip side you dont want corners cut.

 
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