This car arrived at the dealer on 10/2018 and the sales guy drove it until we purchased it in April 2019. The initial mileage was 19,018 and when we bought the car it had about 20,400 miles on it.
When the CPO inspection was completed on 10/2018 the front brake pads were 12/32 and rear were 8/32. Right after I bought the car I took it to an independent Volvo mechanic (guy I used for my other Volvo's) and had a pre-purchase inspection done. The front pads were at 12/32 and rear were 8/32.
Last October 2019 State inspection (dealer) showed we had 25,488 on the car and the front pads were 12/32 and the rear were 10/32 (rear pads grew thicker?)
Just had a State inspection (dealer) completed and we 31,307 miles on the car and they say I have 2/32 on the front and 5/32 on the rear. Something doesn't add up.
Either I have very sticky calipers on this car or someone doesn't know how to measure. BUT this is the same dealer that I had to report to Volvo America for not doing all the work on a recall. If someone didn't know about cars they wouldn't have checked but I do and I checked. They said bring the car in and we'll do the entire work required on the recall. Volvo America was paying them $660 for the job and parts so do the darn job! They gave me a $50 gift card, some people might call it hush money.
So just to have another set of eyes I had my 35 year old neighbor come over. He has a nice pole barn and does side work and also worked at shops turning wrenches. I didn't tell him why I was asking him to take a peak at the pads but he immediately said, there's a lot of pad there. But to make sure we'll pull the wheels tomorrow to look at the inner pads. But if inner pads are worse, that means a sticking caliper and on a car with such low miles I would not be a happy guy. Normally I'd jack it up, pull the wheel and look but I had a reaction to the flu shot and my arm has been sore for 16 days. Really, really sore and I can't think of lifting that tire.
Poor guy behind me at the dealer was having a new battery installed. I heard them say it was going to be $308. Really?
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