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I think he said Delphi, I’d never heard of them and was hoping for Bosch as I have heard of them (I’ve got two Bosch drills). He said Delphi or Brembo were alright. They were just over £100 each. Don’t know about the pads.

Update - I got a bloke off a mate who goes about in a van and does car jobs on your drive. Nice lad, very polite and knowledgable. We went out for a spin and he said "that'll be warped discs". I was fed up with it so just agreed to have him change them (and the pads) £300. It took him an hour or so with his trolley jack and pneumatic wrench. All good! Thanks very much to young Ryan from Middlewich 🙂 But WTF are National and Kwik Fit doing? Total timewasters!! I could have had this fixed weeks ago.

I’ve had them checked at two places now; National Tyres and Kwik Fit (only because they offer a free brake check). Both said the same, there’s nothing to see but definitely something is wrong. At high speed I’ve noticed it’s worse when braking lighly than hard! And I’ve had a go at forcing the ABS to come on by skidding on a gravelly driveway but I couldn’t make it do it. Even at speed I couldn’t force a skid.

yes, the brake pedal does judder a lot but it rattles up the handlebars too. I was going to try to actually make the ABS kick by skidding on a dirt patch of something. Find out if it is ABS or if that is even worse (and the light comes on). I had to do a 300 mile drive yesterday and it was awful, maybe a bit dangerous on the motorway.

I thought that too, but I took it to the garage and they reckoned they’d checked them and they were fine. It seems better initially but gets worse as after a bit of use, like when they’ve warmed up. Does that sound like discs?

I have an issue where it feels like my ABS is stuck on. Whatever speed I’m doing, whenever I touch the brakes I get that stuttering up the steering column like when your ABS kicks in. No lights come on to say it is ABS just that mechanical judder. Seems to be quite strong around 20-30 mph, but does it al higher speeds too. I had the brakes checked and apparently they’re fine but it makes for a very uncomfortable ride. It’s a 2016 Avant, and I don’t have an appetite for randomly changing parts until I find out what it is. Any ideas?

woah! look at the price of them...

Oh, right so I’ve got two aswell but one of them has this strap attached. I thought that was glued on. So they’re for attaching elastic straps to that you can use to secure a newspaper or a birthday card maybe. I only have one strap, there’s nothing to clip into the upper hole. I guess you don’t have any straps, just two holes so I should think myself lucky. I’ll have to start getting a newspaper in order that I can realise the full potential of my boot store. And I’m back to using those pegs for the shopping bags, if only they were a bit more of a hook than a peg they’d be good. The probably predate ‘bags for life’ with massive handles.

Does anyone know what this hole is for in the passenger side wall of the boot? There isn't one on the other side. I looks like something should go in it but I've no idea what. I'm intested in finding something to stop my shopping bags from tipping over and sliding about so I thought it might be used for that, somehow?!