Hi folks,

I drive a 1999 Ford Focus 1.6 Zetec and the other day the handbrake/brake fluid warning light started coming on while I was driving obviously with the handbrake off so I automatically assumed that there was something wrong with my brakes. I looked at the brake fluid resevoir and could see that my fluid was slightly under the min mark, but to cut a long story short, I've owned the car for years and never changed the fluyid so I thought I'd take it to quick fit to have them change the fluid for me which I did today.

Dropped the car off this morning and they said that they need to do a brake test because I might have a leak in the system. Long story short, they called me an hour later and informed me that I needed new front discs and pads, new shoes for the back and also 2 new rear wheel cylinders. All at a low cost of 537 Euro's ( I live abroad at the moment). That's almost 500 quid!

Anyway, I drive my 2 kids around in the car and as they had informed me that it wasn't safe I told them to go ahead and fix it which they have.

The only thing that gets me suspicious apart from the price is that on the receipt and the diagram everything is marked as "advies"which means recommended. This leads me to believe that I didn't need any of these things and that a top up of the fluid may have sufficed.

Have I been conned?