Serves me right

[haydw]

in the middle of a trip to austria, serviced the bike and noticed that the rear pads were a bit thin. No problem, order and fit before I go.

I then forgot to order them on the last monday morning i was at home.

Coming down the Grossglockner today reminded me. checked my poi's on my trusty zumo and BMW kauffman was down the road in kaprun.

In my basic german I managed to get across what I wanted. the mechanic brought the pads from the stores and I went to the counter to pay.

"that will be 76 euro please"

won't be making that mistake again.

 

[Pukmeister]

The brake pads were free, it was the ass reaming you were actually paying for.

 

[majorbumsore]

oooh,
I bet that hurt, add in the 18 euros for the pass pass and that was an expensive day.
was the pass clear i did it in a blizzard on the 3 weeks ago.

 

[Zed3]

I got stung for front pads in similar situation in Austria 2 years ago - about 120 euros for the four front pads......ouch!! Thought they had misunderstood me and that was the price for a caliper!! Was that shocked, I set off leaving my sunglasses on the pannier, realised just in time to see them being smashed by the only car on an otherwise empty road.