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I have just had my Touareg in for the 120K service at the local dealer.
Need new tyres and apparently front discs and pads.
Quoted $1850 for the brake job. They said it was tricky.
What do you think?
 
It's not tricky, and is too expensive. Get a set of decent rotors and some Pagid pads and go hard. I just replaced all rotors with high carbon rotors, and Pagid pads all round, for about $800. Yours runs bigger front rotors and different pads, though prices shouldn't be that much different.

Also, get your car away from the dealer, they are hopeless, as shown by thinking front brakes are tricky. If you can't do the work yourself, find a VAG specialist and take it there, they will actually give a **** about your car, rather than trying to seperate you from your money.
 
The Touareg brake job is the easiest brake job of any vehicle I've done. Buy the parts and do it yourself or find another shop.
 
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I have just had my Touareg in for the 120K service at the local dealer.
Need new tyres and apparently front discs and pads.
Quoted $1850 for the brake job. They said it was tricky.
What do you think?
Does that price include changing hardware for the EPB?
If so maybe that's why they say it's tricky... for them.
If it doesn't include the EPB hardware then it's overpriced by at the min. ~$500, then again it's a stealership.
 
I have just had my Touareg in for the 120K service at the local dealer.
Need new tyres and apparently front discs and pads.
Quoted $1850 for the brake job. They said it was tricky.
What do you think?
For brakes all the way around, that's a great price from the dealer. I paid $2,200 American for rotors, pads and EPB.
Does that price include changing hardware for the EPB?
If so maybe that's why they say it's tricky... for them.
If it doesn't include the EPB hardware then it's overpriced by at the min. ~$500, then again it's a stealership.
Totally agree! EPB should definitely be checked at minimum
 
I assume front means front... but let's wait for clarity...
I was gonna say, but figured I’d let them sort it out first. 🌚 nobody reads the posts anymore.
 
I'm going to do it myself - what can go wrong?
Thanks for all your inspirational posts.
Goodonya!
There are plenty of how-tos and videos out there to guide you.
Keep in mind that there is no real urgency if your pad wear warning hasn't come on yet. Even after you get the warning you have thousands of k's of pad left.
I bought the parts to do mine about a year ago and I'm still waiting for the pad wear light to come on.
 
The front calipers on the V8 have radial mounting bolts not the normal axial bolts on the smaller V6 calipers. There is a specific tool which are a couple of guide pins that screw into the caliper mount and enable the calipher to be easily slid up and supported when replacing the pads. I am not sure how hard it is to do without this tool as I have yet to need to change my front pads but I bought the tool for use when needed, it is cheap on Ebay. I believe this use of guide pins was to protect ceramic rotors which were used with this caliper type on some cars and it possibly not critical with the Tregs steel rotors
 
I was gonna say, but figured I’d let them sort it out first. 🌚 nobody reads the posts anymore.
Apparently my hooked on phonics failed me again. :LOL:
Glad I'm not the only one who missed it.
When I read it I missed "front" and when I saw the price I didn't bother to re-check.
In this case the OP was quoted way too much for just front brakes.
 
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