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Do you get a kiss first?
I like to be kissed before I'm ****ed!
I had the same today, £40 hr labour + brake fluid = bill for £50.
I'd want some romance and a proper snog before I got well and truly porked to that extent!
DIY it - it's a piece of piss
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It's £20 per brake in TBC, my brakes finally work now and hopefully I won't have to touch them for a long time. £40 is a lot for me, but neither me nor my mate managed to bleed the damn new XT brakes. I had to pump the lever couple of times before it started to work, then on every ride I had to think where to start pumping the lever to have a chance to stop or slow down. Mark sorted everything and the brakes work like a dream. If You don't know how to do it than You will have to pay. I didn't, paid what they charge and it's now sorted. It takes some time to bleed the brakes and the store has to earn something on it as well. Or give it a try, bleed kit for Shimano is cheap, mineral oil is cheap, but when I was bleeding my Martas for the first time it took me ages to get it right.
Even I can bleed a brake!
£40 is taking the piss if you ask me. Quoted £20 at another new LBS that's just opened up the road so gave them the custom (support your LBS and all that ) plus i'm a hamfisted goon and don't have the bits.
If You don't know how to do it than You will have to pay.
bollocks...everyone can learn
sounds about right to me...
(front and back?)
(£10 for the dude to do it + £10 for the shops expenses* + £10 profit for the shop + £10 to encourage you to learn to do it yourself)
(*managers pay, business taxes, building expenses, teabags, biscuits etc.)
yes you can do it yourself, but if you want a bike shop to do a job that takes an hour or so, that's what it'll cost them.
Still disagree, even OPA at Llandegla only charge £10 per end
Most brakes aren't set up right in the first place... Or are just plain knackered. That's why most shops would charge this amount.
If they need a bleed then they often also need the mount facing and re-shimming (if they're IS mount) the pistons cleaning, freeing, lubing and centering. The rotors need to be straightened and all the bolts re-torqued.
TBH £20 per end is not anywhere near profitable, but happy folks with stoppy brakes come back.
Still disagree, even OPA at Llandegla only charge £10 per end
good enough reason to learn yourself then no?
Scotia - in time yeah but could do with them being sorted fairly soon, never done it before and like I said don't have a bleed kit to hand. For £20 seems ok plus can get Mrs Philsimm's brakes done at the same time
I don't want the mounts facing, re shimming, the pistons lubing, or the rotors truing or any of the other stuff though? If there is other stuff that crops up during the bleed then would be happy to pay but for a basic bleed...
I don't want the mounts facing, re shimming, the pistons lubing, or the rotors truing or any of the other stuff though?
Most people think their brakes need bleeding when the root cause is all this other stuff. If you think everything else is perfect, to you sir, £15 per end. If it still feels squishy because the mount is on the piss and one piston doesn't move, tough...
(Woah.. big edit you did there!) It's never so simple as just a bleed.
Sorry to sound like a broken record, but take 5 minutes on google, find a procedure for your brakes and learn to do it yerself. Save yourself a fortune???
I'd never done them before I did mine for the 1st time and it was easy.
Not according to bikewhisperer scotia, never just as simple as a bleed.
Like i said, don't have the stuff to do it and could do with it doing fairly soon. A cheapo Avid bleed kit is £15 on ebay no? + fluid
Sorry should have said, it was for my Ford Focus! 😳
If it's an avid then you don't have to worry about the mount or shimming. The bleed is very easy if you follow the instructions... The rotors are made out of extrabendyium though so will need very carefully truing to get through the tiny clearance.. That's the part that takes patience. It's not at all hard, but is easier with a solid workstand and a well lit workshop.
Dont laugh , But why dont you take the Halfords One year maintenance deal for £19 then stick the bike In next week for a brake bleed. I got my Juicy's , gears and a wheel trued for nowt.
I charge £20 per brake bleed
if pads needs replacing, its £15 for each pair of pads
Look on Youtube all depends on what brakes you have fella...
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That's the thing though, people see "brake bleed" and assume it's a 5 min job of banging a bit of fluid through. For a shop, doing the job properly, it's not that at all, it's a complete flush through using the proper bleed kit, brakes re-set from scratch, pads out and cleaned, pistons cleaned and lubed, rotors degreased and the brakes working better than new.
I took my bike into Brixton Cycles in London a couple of days before Mountain Mayhem one year cos the brakes just weren't feeling right and, despite many years experience in bike mechanics myself I just couldn't get the bloody things right. Went back about 2hrs later and the brakes were spot on perfect. Cost me £30 (I got a £5 discount from the normal £35 price cos I know them all there).
The one piece of equipment on your bike that NEEDS to work 100% every time - I'll pay £40 once every couple of years if the job is done properly.
Ah, the joys of not owning BB7s 🙂
pis5 take. Just buy the kit. Then get the money back in biccies for doing everyone elses.
the guy at Delamere charged my mate £15 per end. you didn't mention if that price was per end or for both as if its for both, that would be reasonable IMO
for avids i charge £10 per end fully flushed with propper avid bleed kit as for shops it not so much the job but the overheads that are the problem.
I looked it up and tried it for the first time on some Giant MPHs I'd got on a second hand bike. It was pretty easy, but it turned out there was a different problem with the piston in the lever. I got the parts for that and had a go. No joy.
At that point I thought I'd spend some money to save myself the hassle. I was also hoping to lend the bike to a friend that weekend. I took it to Evans, who made me stand around for 20 minutes, booked it in, then came back upstairs to say "We haven't got the tools to do it." I left.
I think they were going to charge £35 + parts to do it, so I thought sod that, and bought a whole new set of fully bled brakes for less than that on ebay. Now I have working brakes, and almost a whole set of spares, with no bike shop grief, and no feeling that I've been done by anyone.
I guess their £35+ charge will be swallowed by customers who see no alternative (or aren't as stingy as me).
Tenner an end is pretty standard, no?
sounds about right. crazylegs has said it all so i dont need to bother. shops can bleed a brake and bleed a brake only but they wont sleep at night (at least the ones who care when closing times comes around) if its still not working right. this means cleaning pistons or replacing them along with seals.
epic.. i asked steve to put a bb7 on order for my next bike(just going to run one rear brake!)
with quality cables and the right levers they can blow some hydro brakes away.hassle free.