Gordo

Hi

Am looking for a specialist brake place - I live near Woking (i.e. SWest of Heathrow) and am looking for somewhere in the vicinity that could fit an AP set on my P1 - it needs rear disks so it's time to treat it.

Thanks in advance

Gordo

cav400

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:: GRD - Greenwood Racing Developments :: there you go

Gordo

Thanks Cav - but don't think so. The website doesn't quite paint the real picture - I popped in their last year.

GRD is basically a young lad with a bag of spanners and an old ramp in his dad's shed. He wasn't chuffed when I asked to see his workshop - and watched him remove a rusty padlock from the creaking old doors. Reputable they ain't - he tried his best to sell me a box of fuel additive but I couldn't have left faster if I'd tried..

Love some of the claims on the website - e.g. "The following Brake Package have been tried and tested by us at The Nürburgring Nordschleife, Brands Hatch Indy, and Donnington Park. " Errrr- don't think so

They had no customers. and appeared to be lounging round messing on a computer in what looked like their bedroom. I suspect one of them is good at websites. I drive past it most days and there is no evidence at all from the outside of anything except a derelict garden centre, a strange run down antique shop thing and signs advertising the family funerals and skip businesses (!).

Gordo

scoobian

its curious: they advertise that they have a dyno too
...very good looking web****e...are you sure they dont have another workshop?

they also have their own forum on Surrey Scoobies web****e

cav400

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ok mate ill steer clear then thanks for that . look's like a trip down the m4 then

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Gordo

if they had another workshop, I'm sure they wouldn't have taken me into the shed! they don't even have a sign up at that address....I'll have a nose on the Surrey scoobies website (didn't know it existed) (edited to say - the rolling road is at some bloke called Charlie's in Longcross - near the M3, I'd guess about 4 miles from the GRD place).

thx Cav - Newbury is doable - have you used them? that website doesn't look too great. (apologies for sounding sniffy - if I'm spending 2k on brakes I want to know they'll be fitted properly by a reputable establishment)

G

Gordo

just had a nose on the GRD site on surrey scoobies.

to be fair, there appear to be a lot of happy customers and the boys clearly know what they're doing with respect to their own race car builds.

but what I can't reconcile is the "workshop" - to be generating the profits to fund their own motors they'd need a lot more throughput with smarter facilities or they're being funded by others (sponsors? family?).

anyone used them on here?

link to pics of their workshop here (the one with the forkilift outside is it - with a skip to the left (I kid you not) being where they keep their stuff.

Grd 2007 Race Car - Page 7 - Surrey Scoobies