Brake Skimming Testimonials

Sutherland M Power Cars make savings with Pro-Cut

Sutherland M Power Cars in Winford, Bristol installed the Pro-Cut on-car brake lathe in their workshop a few months ago and have been making savings on their sales car preparation ever since.

David Swinney, Service Manager at Sutherlands, said; “We sell a lot of high performance vehicles but with new brake discs sometimes costing over £300, we were spending a considerable amount of money on sales car preparation. With the Pro-Cut machine we are now able to resurface the discs, bringing them back to ex-factory condition making them as good as new. We are also using the brake lathe on customer’s cars especially those experiencing brake judder, so as well as the savings we make we are able to save our customers money too.”

David had previously used a Pro-Cut brake lathe when he worked at a Porsche dealer, so when he arrived at Sutherland Cars he knew the workshop would benefit from a skimming machine as much of their work is on BMW, Mercedes and Audi vehicles with big costly brake discs.

Sutherland M Power Cars can be found at www.mpowercars.co.uk

911 SBD

911 SBD is an independent Porsche repair specialist in North-West London. The owner Raj Bose bought his first Pro-Cut machine 3 years ago and in 2011 upgraded to the PFM 9.2. 911SBD recommends brake disc skimming in preference to disc replacement (as long as discs are not below minimum thickness) to permanently solve brake vibration problems. You can see his page on this here:

Many motorists have taken their vehicles to 911 SBD as their technicians can skim discs on a wide range of vehicles as well as Porsche, such as BMW, Bentley (all models) VW Touareg and Phaeton, and the Audi RS range.

EBC Brakes

The specialist brake components manufacturer EBC recommends Pro-Cut. See their article which explains brake judder and its solution in more detail at http://ebcbrakes.com/articles/pro-cut-lathe

Some of the key points that EBC make are:

• Problems with brake judder will not be solved by changing discs. If discs are changed when there is brake judder this will provide a temporary solution but vibrations will return after 3,000 to 6,000 miles
• Pro-Cut machines work on both plain discs and even better on slotted and drilled discs of all types.

EBC started using the Pro-Cut lathe 8 years ago after investigating numerous vibration issues on cars and found the product was not to blame but in 95% plus of the cases alignment was the issue.
Spring brings a wave of issues on vibration after potholes and slippery roads causing vehicles to nudge kerbstones mis align wheel hubs.
The weak stance is to throw a new set of rotors at the customer using mythical expressions such as 'Your discs are warped' which is physically impossible with a rigid large mass of cast iron but this stance leads to a problem repeat and eventually reputation damage.
Recommending Pro-Cut solves it all, even on new discs.
If a vehicle comes in for service with brake vibration, installing new parts without a Pro-Cut is a waste of time and materials and Garages can really gain friends and satisfied customers using a Pro-Cut to perfect their brake installations.

It is very telling that a brake disc manufacturer recommends that discs should be skimmed as a solution to brake judder. Along with virtually all vehicle manufacturers (whose engineering departments have tested the Pro-Cut machine), this confirms that brake judder can only be permanently solved by correct machining of the discs directly on the vehicle.

D & B Automotive

Des Johnson of D&B automotive recently upgraded his Pro-Cut PFM 9.0 disc skimming lathe to the latest PFM 9.2 version. Over the last 2 years Des has used his 9.0 regularly but realised he needed a bigger lathe to work on high-spec Audis, BMWs and Bentleys, especially with D&B receiving ever more of enquires via Skim My Discs, the Pro-Cut drivers’ website. Whilst we were on-site installing the new Pro-cut brake lathe, Des commented:

I do a lot of electrical diagnostic work as I have the latest kit for this. Customers with top of the range Audis and BMWs who come to have their discs skimmed then also need diagnostic work which I can provide. So Skim My Discs and the Pro-Cut brake lathe have generated multiple new customers and extra business for my workshop. This has been a really good investment

Westerleigh Cars

Neil Skuse of Westerleigh Cars in Bristol likes to be different. He knows that by offering something that other garages can’t he will deliver better service, attract more customers and increase his revenues and profits. That’s why in late 2012 Neil invested in a wheel alignment kit, which paid for itself quickly. And that’s also why Neil invested in a Pro-Cut on-car brake lathe in January 2014.

After 3 months of using his Pro-Cut machine Neil is delighted. He commented: “Our technicians like using it, customers like the results it gives and I’m pleased that it is getting the use that we predicted. In fact one or two customers have even given us positive feedback on our Facebook page”. The picture shows Neil’s counter-top display which attracts a lot of attention.

The Pro-Cut on-car brake lathe skims discs directly on the vehicle. It corrects run-out and eliminates brake vibration, removes rust and ridges and delivers prefect braking for much less than the cost of replacement discs.