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Knowing next to nothing about cars, I am a bit alarmed about what's written on the CT cert when my 10 year old Hyundai went for this procedure today.

Frein de service:  efficacité 73%

Désequilibré Av: 1% Ar: 23%

Frein stationnement Efficacité 23%

What do you recommend that I do about my brakes?

Also, if I want a UK type car service, eg, eveything checked, timing belt, etc and handbrake adjusted, do I need to book it in at a Hyundai garage and will it cost mega bucks?

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Any independant garage will sort out a service and timing belt for you, but it will still be pretty pricey. A Hyundai dealership will be very expensive.

The brake readings look ok to me. Assuming it passed the tests ok, I wouldnt worry too much about them.

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I won't comment except to say that all of the elements could be part of a service;

On that age vehicle I wouldn't book it in to a main dealer Hyundai garage; 
a service schedule should be included with your owners handbooks.
Hyundai Lantras should have cambelt change every 3 years or 36,000 miles,
if the belt goes on this age vehicle, it won't be worth repairing.

I can recommend a garage I have used near you at St Paul Lizonne, Father & son business,
''Top Garage'' Sarl Chatillon Services, 24320, tel: 05 53 91 50 40;
perhaps compile a list and call/visit asking for a devi.

With a new CT, now's perhaps the time to trade it in[;-)]

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Given the imbalance on the rear brakes it might be worth having them looked over, are they disc or drum?

A roly poly tester can have the same effect with the unloaded rear wheel locking up and lifting off the rollers at a lower reading than the wheel on his side, that said there would normally be a corresponding but lower imbalance on the front as well.

Was there a desiquilibre also noted on the handbrake?

As has been said it is all within limits and has passed but if it has drum brakes on the rear I would whip them off just in case there is a weeping cylinder unlikely with disc brakes and more visible.

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Thank you for all your knowledgeable replies and special thanks to JJ for the recommendation.

Thing is, against my better judgement, when I had a prang in the car (no, no one else involved, senior moment when I rammed a reinforced door on a public building), I spent 2 or 3 grand, having parts from both here and UK and having the car patched up, re-sprayed, etc.

I had so many people telling me to get it repaired that that was what I did.

And now, I feel as though I ought to get as much as possible out of it and just run it to the ground.  After all, doing very little mileage these days and it's mainly used to take the dog out.

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If the car is reliable keep it. Another car may have a whole load of hidden faults which could cost a fortune to fix.

I run my cars until they become too expensive to fix. I had a 20 year old Volvo once and the damn thing refused to die. It was only when I could not get spare parts that sent it to the scrap yard..

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You know, fisherman, that was exactly what many car buffs on the Forum told me to do at the time.  A Scottish mechanic who was visiting friends cast his eye on it and said the same thing.

The last 3 cars I'd changed, I wished afterwards I hadn't done so.

These Japanese and Korean cars are ridiculously reliable.  Mine always starts even if left unused for weeks and I'd only had to change the original battery very recently.

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My Citroen C5 is 10 years old now and generally so reliable. Though we changed the cambelt 18 months ago the cam pulley gave way on the motorway a couple of weeks ago (and the belt and water pump were destroyed). While we paid £2000 for the repairs without doing that the car would have been worth zero. We know it is regularly serviced and any minor faults. What else could we have bought second hand for the £2000 spent? Possibly a load of trouble....I go with fisherman on this one - better the devil you know!
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Oh, minnie, I read about your problems on the motorway and I thought you were so brave and handled everything so well [:D]

I think I'd have been sitting on the side of the road wailing...boo hoo boo hoo 

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With 'modern cars, I believe there is timeframe for a car for a car before it's usage dictates that it will need major expenditure, just before that there is a period of residual value, the balance is to get the usage that you are comfortable with, ie popping down to the shops or battling up and down a motorway, without risk of breaking down with an expensive failure and losing what a week before was residual value. So my view is not to keep cars that start to show problems on the basis that it may well get more expensive which has been my experience. (unless like me you want to keep pouring money into some old classic[8-|])

My old Mercedes W124 is still hanging on by its fingertips, though I can see the whites of its knuckles; Newer Cars do have more finite lives than ever before, designed by engineers but controlled by accountants to get the most for the least they really do have a built in obselence. Not least electronics and catalytic converters, when these things fail, costs are prohibitive unless sourced from scrap yards and my last two modern cars one less than three years old and at 80K miles just out of warranty, despite main dealers servicing both suffered expensive breakdowns, one was an ECU, and one was a Catalytic converter. Consequently I have gone off Euro 4 diesel spec cars on the basis that in order to build a lower emission level, more frequent expensive replacement is now built in.
My feelings now are that actually petrol cars are perhaps not so expensive when subsequent modern diesel replacement costs in terms of Cats and flywheels are factored in, and a change now and then is a good thing.

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[quote user="dave21478"]Any independant garage will sort out a service and timing belt for you, but it will still be pretty pricey. A Hyundai dealership will be very expensive.

The brake readings look ok to me. Assuming it passed the tests ok, I wouldnt worry too much about them.

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Can't agree with this, at least regarding the Hyundai dealership at Cognac. Their hourly charges are no more expensive than my local independant garage.

I recently had some major repair work done there for which they gave me a devis before they started. When I collected the car the bill was €200 less than the devis because they didn't have to do so much work on it as they expected.

They could have charged me the full amount and I would have been none the wiser.

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Thanks for that, Cheminot.  I know the garage.  I rang them for a spare part and they had it sent to Saintes for collection as Saintes was more convenient for me.

I've never had a service there, however, but I may well do now.

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My experience with both the Skoda and the Nissan (our two jalopies) dealers is that their prices are no more expensive than our local Toutes Marques.  I don't know about Hyundai, of course, but I'm not sure that specialist dealers are always that pricey here.
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[quote user="cooperlola"] I'm not sure that specialist dealers are always that pricey here.[/quote]

I guess with the prices of parts here they have less need, however I can say that my local garage were less expensive than the local Renault garage (who wouldn't quote until they had run diagnostics at a cost).

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