MOT

[thatfatbloke]

That's the old girl MOT'd for another year then. She just needed brake pads all round,which I was going to have done anyway,and no advisories.She already had MOT 'til December,but I didn't want any nasty surprises just before Christmas. The rear pads were only done last December,but the previous owner clocked up about 6000 miles between then and when I bought her in June. Probably didn't help that he drove like a complete lunatic and was therefore heavy on the brakes.  As I drive like the vicars wife,she can have a nice sedate retirement now with me down by the seaside. Mind you I have been looking at a 4.6 Range Rover on LPG up in Essex............................

[Cotswold Pete]

John,

Driving like the vicars wife should see the pads last a lifetime.

I had new ones fitted 40,000 miles ago, and they are still only 30% worn, and every day I have to descend a 600foot (1in 7) hill and probably drive more like the vicars wife when she is late for the ladies lunch, so I am surprised they have not worn down a lot more.

As to a Range Rover 4.6, lovely cars expect when they go wrong, which from my bosses experience is reasonably often.  Mind you nice and high up, and as quite as LS (maybe more so on rough road surfaces).

 

[RgrWynne]

To go through rear brakes in 6000 miles I would have thought you would need to have driven like Lewis Hamilton !!!