Buy a car with a normal handbrake, £15 cable vs £263 motor
So £5k versus £263 I FAIL TO SEE THE VALUE OF UR COMMENT!
As for the service, no, I had the pads changed once and that was the proper way after having done my research. It failed after being sat for 3 weeks whilst we were on holiday. There’s no seal between the caliper body and the motor body, which is frigging stupid. If I were fixing it myself I’d put something in to keep the water out but the garage are doing it. It takes 10 mins to change it but apparently needs an hour of configuration work 🙁
I will call some indies, see what happens.
On the plus side, there’s a recall out for the injectors, which could be a nice new set of injectors for free at 86k miles.
PP, I am well aware of bangernomics, ta.