DH declined new brake pads on my car! .

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My car is in for a service. Garage has my number as it’s my car but rings DH to ask if they can change the break pads as they are 70 per cent worn. I drive 500 miles a week. He says no, leave them for a couple of months. Service member mentions the car is booked back in for January when they ring me to say it’s ready to collect.
Any how, I have authorised the garage to replace my brake pads today. I will then pick up my car and pay for them from my own bank account. Clever me.
AIBU to feel very annoyed on a number of levels with DH and garage. Twats the pair of them.

Hi
Member mentioned that their new pads and discs do not feel as responsive as they were expecting. This will be true as they have to 'bed in' so the profile and surface finish stop being 'new'.
Take care until they get their act together by allowing more distance etc.

1tis.... yes, I got that the first time I applied the breaks on the way home! Never have I been so wrong on a subject.

This is so not about whether you need new brake pads or not. The garage should not have phoned your husband and he should have referred them back to you.

In your shoes I would have got them to put new break pads on because even if I could have got another 5000 miles out of them it would have been the car back in the garage for a day at another point. With your mileage that is only 3 months. In cost terms how much are you likely to save over the life of a car - maybe £300 or two sets of brake pads. Not worth the hassle of being without a car.

And most importantly - if you put new brake pads on your car every month because you want to that is up to you. The garage had no right contacting your husband!!

I'm lucky that my DH is very safety conscious. I had a 'pulling' feel on my car for a few weeks and it turned out that a brake was binding.
I soon found out when one wheel caught alight!
New tyres, brakes, pads and disks. Oops!

Not sure why they called your DH and not you if it's your car and they had your number - however he made the right decision and you didn't. They up-sell stuff like this a lot - they are just saying next time be prepared, but if someone is silly enough to say do it now then of course they will do it.

If you feel it's better to have them changed today as you can pay for them to be done then just put the money aside in a savings account and use it at the next service.