Blackberry
New member
Hi everyone,
I bought my first F Type in July, I didn't spend too long looking and only drove a couple of examples. There was a car for sale which ticked a lot of options boxes & with low miles and loved the look of it!
V8 R AWD, Pan Roof, the colour is blackberry (deep purple metallic in the sun) with full red interior
So far the experience has been marred by a couple of issues which are aftersales derived in the main and the car has been back with the supplying independent dealer for the last 2 weeks.
One of the options (which I wasn't particularly looking for) is Carbon Ceramics - my car has them and i noticed a couple of things with them in the first few days. 1. the O/S front caliper would creak when depressing the brake pedal at any speed, 2. the parking brake was squealing at all speeds, 3. the N/S fron brake developed a grumbling sound when braking.
Everything was disclosed to the dealer and they inspected in-house, they informed me that they wanted to replace the front pads and the parking brake pads, all sounds fine and i appreciated the support from them. Fast forward and after some very poor customer service by a director of the business (basically saying they weren't going to replace them after they said they were going to) all has hopefully been sorted out and they have stuck to their agreement and replaced the pads as promised.
I have never had CC brakes before and have done a lot of research into the care and quirks of them, given the dealer's no so great response, I was a bit sceptical and so have asked for the original pads to be present with the car for me to see they have been replaced.
Happily the car is now ready to collect tomorrow and I can't wait! The car drives without any other issues, however if anyone has any nuggets of info or things to check re the braking system (or anything else) I'm all ears!
Many thanks
I bought my first F Type in July, I didn't spend too long looking and only drove a couple of examples. There was a car for sale which ticked a lot of options boxes & with low miles and loved the look of it!
V8 R AWD, Pan Roof, the colour is blackberry (deep purple metallic in the sun) with full red interior
So far the experience has been marred by a couple of issues which are aftersales derived in the main and the car has been back with the supplying independent dealer for the last 2 weeks.
One of the options (which I wasn't particularly looking for) is Carbon Ceramics - my car has them and i noticed a couple of things with them in the first few days. 1. the O/S front caliper would creak when depressing the brake pedal at any speed, 2. the parking brake was squealing at all speeds, 3. the N/S fron brake developed a grumbling sound when braking.
Everything was disclosed to the dealer and they inspected in-house, they informed me that they wanted to replace the front pads and the parking brake pads, all sounds fine and i appreciated the support from them. Fast forward and after some very poor customer service by a director of the business (basically saying they weren't going to replace them after they said they were going to) all has hopefully been sorted out and they have stuck to their agreement and replaced the pads as promised.
I have never had CC brakes before and have done a lot of research into the care and quirks of them, given the dealer's no so great response, I was a bit sceptical and so have asked for the original pads to be present with the car for me to see they have been replaced.
Happily the car is now ready to collect tomorrow and I can't wait! The car drives without any other issues, however if anyone has any nuggets of info or things to check re the braking system (or anything else) I'm all ears!
Many thanks
