What damage am I looking at?

[kapiteinlangzaam]

Had similar on two of my old Volvos, but never to the point the disc was glowing red.... f*cking hell youve done a number on that one! (Volvos were both 15yrs old though, so I can forgive them slightly).

I got away with just a new caliper, but I suspect you'll be needing the full works as you have already listed.

Good luck!

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[Gibbo205]

Had similar on two of my old Volvos, but never to the point the disc was glowing red.... f*cking hell youve done a number on that one! (Volvos were both 15yrs old though, so I can forgive them slightly).

I got away with just a new caliper, but I suspect you'll be needing the full works as you have already listed.

Good luck!

Maybe wheel bearing damage too, shall also loosen the wheel tomorrow and make sure its not welded itself to brake disc or anything.

Emailed the guy who sold me the car to pass onto whoever is the service manager and to expect a call from me on Monday with Andy Barratt on cc.

 

[kapiteinlangzaam]

Good call on the wheel bearing, and id want anything made of rubber (brake flex-lines?) in the area to have a thorough going over.

 

[Gibbo205]

For warranty work can I go to any Ford dealer or just select ones?

 

[Gibbo205]

Maybe my car dislikes meets?

Last time it had epic failure, just before NC500.

Now two weeks prior to the big Wolverhampton meet, it does this....

 

[hinch]

any ford dealer should be fine for warranty work

 

[Gibbo205]

Ok I contacted the dealer close to my home, which is a smaller dealer called Burns Congleton and not a Ford Premier Store or whatever they go.

I asked if they are allowed to do warranty work and servicing on Mustang, good news is they replied tonight and said yes and told me to bring it in the morning.

 

[Gibbo205]

Was funny as the guy on live chat said that G18 WTF plate, did you have a yellow 911 before, haha. Was like yes and he is like ah sweet seen you in the 911 before and come to think of it have seen you in the Mustang too.

Small world.

 

[MrWolf]

Gutted (again for you).

Hope they can turn it around post haste and get you back on the road.

 

[Twin Turbo]

Get them to check the brake servo, too, Gibbo.

I had pretty much exactly this experience in my (gone, but not forgotten) 300ZX Twin Turbo. Rear brake wouldn't release on the left rear.....first I knew was the car felt sluggish....looked in the rear view mirror to see a load of smoke. Shat myself, pulled over, and had a glowing disk just like yours. I actually hat to get the car towed as I couldn't get it to release. My mechanic diagnosed a faulty servo. That was replaced, along with new rear pads. Fortunately, my disks were OK as I'd only done a max of about 4 miles from home before the problem arose.

Good luck mate, I hope Ford play nicely.

 

[Gibbo205]

Get them to check the brake servo, too, Gibbo.

I had pretty much exactly this experience in my (gone, but not forgotten) 300ZX Twin Turbo. Rear brake wouldn't release on the left rear.....first I knew was the car felt sluggish....looked in the rear view mirror to see a load of smoke. Shat myself, pulled over, and had a glowing disk just like yours. I actually hat to get the car towed as I couldn't get it to release. My mechanic diagnosed a faulty servo. That was replaced, along with new rear pads. Fortunately, my disks were OK as I'd only done a max of about 4 miles from home before the problem arose.

Good luck mate, I hope Ford play nicely.

I was driving home from work, had being going pretty damn quick so did a big couple of stops without issue.

Then as I was just cruising at 30mph down hill and coasting the car felt to be slowling, but was hard to tell. About 1/2 mile later every gear change and it felt like clutch/engine were feeling odd, another 1/2 mile and could feel it, pull over and saw this.

It was just starting to faintly smoke, so disc is maybe alright.

 

[Gibbo205]

Hi there


OK so after the surprise of a Ford dealership contacting me at 11pm last night on Facebook (incredible service), I decided to pay their service manager a visit this morning.

The garage in question is Burns Ford Congleton, a family run business since 1918:-
http://www.burnsgarages.co.uk/


Anyway got there, surprised that its actually quite a large garage, plenty of parking.

I met with Chris who is service manager I think, anyway irrelevant of his rank its the first time I visited a Ford dealership and got the impression they really cared, which makes a refreshing change.

I explained to him what happened and how due to previous disasters of warranty claims I no longer wanted to deal with Bristol Street who simply did not seem to give a damn about me or the car, just another number.

He came outside and had a look at the rear disc and said that has seen some heat for sure, he checked on the Ford database and said they can also service my car using my free service pack Ford gave me for my last troubles.

Expecting to be told I could not be fitted in for weeks, he said bring it Tuesday morning, we shall do the service and get in touch with Ford technical about the rear brake issue and will push for:-
- Pair of rear brake disc
- Pair of brake pads
- New rear caliper

I forgot to mention wheel bearing but I shall mention that Tuesday see what they say, car drove fine today, cannot sense any vibration and brakes seem to be working, of course would they perform on a race track or repeated 100+ stops, who knows.

Still initial impressions are very good of Burns Ford, lets see how things go with the service and warranty work.

Picture of the disc after this mornings drive:

So it clear to see the culprit, but in fairness it looks no worse than the fronts which see a lot more heat anyway due to them doing most the work, so I don't necessarily feel huge damage has happened but of course peace of mind I want the parts changed out.

If warranty fails 666mac the hoonigan with the bright yellow 800HP monster has said I can have his rear pads, disc and calipers as he has now converted to the GT 350 brake setup all round.

Lets see how things go Tuesday, but worse outcome at least I found somewhere far more local to do servicing and future repairs.

Also another Mustang owner sang praises of them to me last week, but I just thought my service pack was locked into one dealer, thankfully it is not so I no longer have to put up with Bristol Street poor service and well people who do not seem to care.

Guess that is the difference between a big franchise of dealerships who are just 9-5 jobbers compared to a family owned business that is approaching 100 years old.

 

[SteveS]

Glad you got a positive response from Ford. The worry when things go wrong is bad enough without the feeling that no one else cares on top

 

[Twin Turbo]

The garage in question is Burns Ford Congleton, a family run business since 1918:-
http://www.burnsgarages.co.uk/

Family run businesses often have a better reputation. Let's hope they live up to that on Tuesday.

Worth telling them of this forum though.......it's a great way to let the Mustang community know about a dealer worth dealing with!

 

[slowhand99]

Nice to see good service. I'd be optimistic that there's not too much damage. I totally cooked a front corner of a 300C I had and although the disc did end up with a slight warp everything else including bearing, was fine. Mine wasn't a warranty failure but yours is so it's reasonable to expect some precautionary replacement of parts. I'll be interested to know what they think about the brake fluid. Changing it at 24 months, which is what I have always done doesn't appear in the service schedule. Does that mean we have some supertech synthetic stuff; or they just forgot........?

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