I had a 206 last and had an awesome one with brakes and the Pug dealer. Took it in for service to Arundale of Scarborough -
Me - "The low brake fluid light flickers on sharp stops and fast cornering - the front pads are well obviously shagged tho, so if you could just check all that out"
Them - "Ok sir will do"
A few hours pass, I collect car -
"The brakes are fine - the mechanic just topped up the fluid for you"
Me - "Erm, if it needs topping up, then either the pads are low, or there is a leak"
Them - "No sir, they can use a bit over time"
Me - "I don't have time to argue this, but I'll be back tomorrow..."
Set off home, get to 70 on the bypass, brake the roundabout, car slews violently left and the hazards come on - it did that when you did an emergency stop - I was gently braking...
Take it back the next day, explain how if there had been a car/cyclist inside of me, I'd have had a pretty major accident. They didn't aplogise... Take it to be looked at, mechanic comes out
"I've found your problem, the brake pads were knackered, and the system had too much fluid in - you shouldn't top it up yourself"
"I didn't, you did yesterday"
"No we didn't"
At this point I was literally almost shaking with rage heh. About a month later, I noticed the rears were grinding badly, but I was going into hospital, so I got my mum to stop at a much better dealer on the way to leeds - Barkers of Malton - I'd recommend them to anyone, they inform mum that the rear pads are so worn, they're down to the metal and have also destroyed the disks, and they take her through into the service area and show her all the damage etc. She mentioned Arundale and the guy laughed out loud apparently... It was nice of them to mention how badly worn my rear pads were when it was serviced and when they took it back, because of a problem with the brakes wasn't it...
Dan