General Discussions

Three weeks of that little orange circle with dashes staring at me every time I turned the key and I finally caved and booked the Passat in at a shop a colleague recommended over in Al Quoz, I'd been putting it off because the last time I had brakes done on a VW the garage messed up the rear caliper wind back and my electronic parking brake refused to release for a solid hour which was a fun way to spend a Tuesday morning in a grocery store parking lot let me tell you, but this place actually knew what they were doing and didn't give me the usual runaround about needing new rotors when the old ones were still well within spec. I found them through http://brakepadreplacementdubai.ae/brands/volkswagen-brake-pad-replacement/ which my brother in law sent me after I was moaning about not wanting to deal with the dealership's week long waiting list just for a basic pad slap, and I'm honestly just relieved to have the warning light gone and the pedal feeling firm again without any of that weird groaning noise I had when reversing. The guy even showed me the old pads and they were toast, the inner one was down to the backing plate and I'd been driving around like that for who knows how long just hoping for the best, so yeah lesson learned don't ignore the warning light for three weeks like a muppet.