OK. Well thanks ever so much for your replies everyone.
My instinct is that while it's probably good advice to change the discs it doesn't seem to be critical.
So i'll explain to the garage that I can't afford new discs quite yet and ask them to just fit new pads for now.
Then I'll see how I get on with them. If it eats them and I need new discs later in the year then so be it. If not then all the better.
Even if the pads just get me to the other side of our upcoming European tour then that's useful.
Incidentally I do plan to get in to doing more of the servicing myself, but I need to build confidence and daren't learn on this bike as it's my only form of transport and its so good I don't want to ruin it.
Plan is to buy a cheap project bike and learn on that - so it doesn't matter if I strip and nut and it's off the road for weeks. Build a bit of confidence before I do it for real on the Fazer.
Thanks once again for your advice, Andy
My instinct is that while it's probably good advice to change the discs it doesn't seem to be critical.
So i'll explain to the garage that I can't afford new discs quite yet and ask them to just fit new pads for now.
Then I'll see how I get on with them. If it eats them and I need new discs later in the year then so be it. If not then all the better.
Even if the pads just get me to the other side of our upcoming European tour then that's useful.
Incidentally I do plan to get in to doing more of the servicing myself, but I need to build confidence and daren't learn on this bike as it's my only form of transport and its so good I don't want to ruin it.
Plan is to buy a cheap project bike and learn on that - so it doesn't matter if I strip and nut and it's off the road for weeks. Build a bit of confidence before I do it for real on the Fazer.
Thanks once again for your advice, Andy