Great, Much obliged to you all I am.
I'll ask J&J to call any or all of them
I'll ask J&J to call any or all of them
My dealer was happy to do the donkey work on the basis of the forum info I provided
Hi all!
Had the squeal and took my 4x4 in to Fiat dealers who couldn't find a problem about 3 months ago. Had a routine service yesterday and was told both rear brakes 'breaking away and discs discoloured due to overheating. Requires new pads and disks' They serviced the car last year with no issues found.
Now my car is 3 years old, only 22k miles and I am VERY light on the brake pedal so I am very confused as to what would have caused this much damage... I am presuming the 2 issues (first the squeal and now the damage) are related... what do people suggest? Fiat customer service? back to the Fiat dealer? I don't want to pay the hundreds of pounds just for the same thing to happen...
All comments gratefully received
Thanks for the reply!
By 'light' I mean that I slow by gear-shifting, I don't speed to corners and slam on the brakes etc... I am a smooth driver... I still can't see how my pads and drums could have suffered so much damage. Doesn't it sound like that I had been driving with the brakes stuck on?
I confess I can't see where the damage has come from either. Maybe you were just unlucky with muck on the roads (we don't have to deal with ice, slush and salted roads here so I don't understand the ramifications of that).
Personally, I do use the brakes to slow the car on the grounds that brake pads are cheaper than engines. Having said that, the TwinAir's engine braking is so good that approaching a corner or roundabout and shifting down is often all that's needed. It's all a balancing act and that varies on how I'm driving at the time and yes, I do give my little Panda a hard time sometimes :devil: (she loves it )
Deeyup, my thoughts exactly! I use to park in the (flat) garage with the hand brake on...and when I reversed out the car always seemed initially reluctant as though the hand brake was sticking... and then I had the squeal.. So I took it to the dealers and explained the problem but they said nothing was wrong...
I stopped using the hand brake to park the car...I phoned the dealers yesterday and even thought she admitted they had seem the car in August she said it was all my driving style (fume... I have been driving over 30 years and never had a problem...) and it was just 'wear and tear' on the brakes... by the way the car is JUST out of warranty.... I can't believe if it was all 'wear and tear ' that they didn't see some sign at last years service... as for the August visit... did they actually look? (yes the car would have been still under warranty at that point...) as the squeal had gone I didn't pursue the matter...
Mines been done today. Fingers crossed...... The only downside was the dacia sandero courtesy car. Gutless and awful
I thought James May liked the Dacia Sandero... oh, wait, that probably confirms what you said
You do know that he used to own a 2006 Fiat Panda 1.2 Eleganza, lol?
I didn't. It doesn't surprise me, he seems to like the common man's cars as well as the expensive stuff.