Advice on Ford dealership questionable repairs?

wezzywebb

Like I said earlier ,you cannot buy every genuine Ford brake pipe for a variety of reasons so you HAVE  to use copper ,is that clearer ?

IronGiant

Go to a different main dealer and see if you can buy a full set

Cocksure

Yes

Cocksure

Plan to, I don't doubt @wezzywebb, but see no harm in checking just the same.

Delvey

Generally with copper brake lines the original part is taken and used almost like a mould with the new copper pipe. So they will try to copy the old pipe with the new one and manually bend it as best as possible.
It's very likely there is no off the shelf brake line.

Cocksure

It's not vital as it doesn't change the fact that they haven't done all of it (but billed as though they have).

IronGiant

Even that is extremely unclear...

Cocksure

Not the best of reports agreed, but the no further signs... Makes it safe to say that one pipe at least hasn't been done with the other 2 in question.

I will argue that the other 3 haven't been done as that should have been evident as the one he did pass judgement on. If one was evident then all should have been evident.

Happy to have another inspection if they want to see for sure.

Edit
To put it in perspective, they have billed for enough pipe to go from the front bumper to the back bumper then down to the front bumper again and a third of the way back to the back bumper. That amount of pipe should be bloody obvious

IronGiant

To put it in perspective, someone who works on brake pipes has said it's not unusual  to charge you for the complete reel of pipe. Or I thought they did, perhaps you could check?.

wezzywebb

Well it was a dealer that did the work ,they normally charge you for the air the mechanics breath too [emoji23]