Testing that tells you something
A brake test is only worth doing if the result is acted on. We test the system, identify what is underperforming and explain what it means for the vehicle — whether that is a wear item approaching its limit, an imbalance across an axle, or a fault that needs dealing with before the vehicle goes out again.
Diagnosis before parts
Poor brake performance has plenty of causes and only some of them are the pads. Air supply and leaks, valves, chambers and slack adjusters, ABS and EBS faults, imbalance across axles, contaminated or worn friction material, discs and drums. Working out which one you actually have is what stops you paying for parts that were never the problem.
Repairs across the system
Friction material, discs and drums, chambers, valves and air lines, ABS and EBS faults, and the adjustment and balancing work that makes the difference between a vehicle that passes and one that does not.
Trailers too
A tractor unit with perfect brakes coupled to a trailer with poor ones is still a vehicle with a braking problem. Trailers get tested and repaired here on the same basis as the units that pull them.
Why it is worth being ahead of
A brake defect found in the workshop is a booked repair. The same defect found at the annual test is a failure, a retest and a vehicle standing still. Found at the roadside, it is a prohibition. The work is the same; only the cost changes.
