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the PO didn't lavish much attention ( or money it seems) on the cars servicing, so im doing it all bit by bit to get her to my own standards,
Brake discs, though working well and just passed a UK MOT , were very untidy and very worn , as we all know, finding replacements is tricky , so from several sources i got all the bits together before attempting the change,,
while in there i gave it as much as a spruce up as i could, wheel will need a refurb in the future when new rubber is fitted,
new discs and pads front and back , old ones showing they were past their best....
Boy those rotors are simply enormous. I read somewhere that the Bentley GT had the biggest production rotors in existence.
I hit the brakes super-hard the other afternoon on a rural road where I wasn't going to make the yellow it stopped nicely but I turned to my daughter and said, "I think that braking just cost me about $8 in brake pad".
I really like their work, they seem honest and they'll work to source VAG parts if there are substitutions available.
It's a family business, the grandmother answers the phone and coordinates everything, she's a hoot. I like them so much that with my engine-out repair job, I bought the whole place a pizza lunch.
I haven't used official Bentley service at all, although I'm going to bite the bullet and get a new set of keys from them, my car came with only one key and I worry about the hairball I'll end up with if I lose it.
Next door they have a detail shop that I wasn't super-impressed by…in fact, I think they power-washed my front struts into failure, and on the other side is a high-end audio shop, I like them, but they are just too crazy busy for my tastes, it's really hard to get into the shop, appointments go out two weeks or more, so it's pretty impossible to coordinate. During the pandemic I could coordinate repair work, then radio work, then a detail, they all hand the keys to each other, but now everyone is crazy busy so them being next to each other doesn't mean anything anymore.
Really weird part of that area around Naperville, one day it was infested with Lamborghinis, I saw four between the shop and the gas station a while back.
There's something really funny, once you exit the area with all the car shops, it's nice pavement for about 200 yards, it must be people being polite, then all sorts of burnout tire marks, pretty much the same place I smash my gas pedal when picking it up from the shop, but the Bentley doesn't generally do burnouts although I have accidentally burned some rubber driving aggressively on bad pavement.
Good to know on the chicago area shops, there aren't many indies I've found here that'll want to touch these. And then those that do, you have to make them buy the VW parts not the VW parts in the Bentley box.
Boy those rotors are simply enormous. I read somewhere that the Bentley GT had the biggest production rotors in existence.
I hit the brakes super-hard the other afternoon on a rural road where I wasn't going to make the yellow it stopped nicely but I turned to my daughter and said, "I think that braking just cost me about $8 in brake pad".
I believe they were at the time. My word they are epic, though. So progressive but you can stop in a real hurry
One other pleasant advantage to Fluid Motor Union is that the parking lot is always chock full of really cool cars, last week there was an original Shelby Mustang, a vintage Mercedes, a bunch of Porsches (I don't really notice those, I'm not a Porsche guy at all), a BMW with a whole bunch of engine and exhaust modifications, the owner had cameras set up to record the exhaust sound, it sounded like an F1 race car. A Lamborghini…all this was in the parking lot, in their facility is where they keep the stuff they're working on. I love coasting through the parking lot.
Oddly, I don't see Ferraris, I wonder if there is a specialized Ferrari shop that gets all of those. I don't know that I've ever seen a Ferrari there.
[QUOTE=British;4882702]Fluid Motor Union is my goto place.
I haven't used official Bentley service at all, although I'm going to bite the bullet and get a new set of keys from them, my car came with only one key and I worry about the hairball I'll end up with if I lose it.
Be sure to have them keep your existing key programmed to work when they make you buy 2 new Bentley keys with "programming" for $1200 (set of two is the only way they sell them).
