[Ian101]

When it comes to cars Im an expert ....  motor trade for years and years before getting into window cleaning and skimming is a reconised repair method certainly by Toyota and other manufacturers and done under warranty for new cars with warped discs but can equally well be applied to older discs that are warped but within tolerences for refacing when it comes to an alternative to replacing with new discs ... saves money which can only be a good thing ... not all discs can be skimmed though so maybe did need replacing ... only the techy at the time could have known but defo not cowboyish to skim instead of replacing.

That's rubbish, no garage in the modern era skim break discs. My nephew is a technician and a mate is the service manager at a main dealer. Your talking like you worked in a back street garage

Skimming warped brake discs to within manufacturers wear tolerances used to be fairly common years ago.
A lot of garages nowadays only want to replace parts and don't want to bother or know how to skim brake discs.
Ian sounds like he does know what he's talking about 
 

yup more money in selling and fitting new parts 

glad no longer in trade window cleaning much more respectable 

[Nameless Drudge]

If discs warp its due to heat,so skimmimg them makes them thinner and less able to handle heat.

So buy 2 new reasonably priced quality discs and clamp em on then job sorted or take off warped used discs,find someone that might skim them and refit a now inferior product plus pay to have them skimmed and mess about burning petrol/diesel and using up time while the quest for saving money is not reached.

Now if you have just warped 2 expensive ventilated discs on a cosworth and you are flogging it and want rid of the horrendous brake shudder then get a cheap skim job from your mate and flog it on,thats why brake disc skimmimg was popular in the motor trade.

[Ian101]

  It never ceases to amaze me the amount of experts on this forum.

  How from a post can people say that the cost of repair is too much?

  Perhaps the fuel leak is coming from a shot fuelpump?, that would soon bang up the price.

   Why skim brake discs? Are the same people saying these things the ones who claim to spend top money on kit so they aren't a cowboy and expect their customers to pay top dollar?

  Probably the reason why myself, and some of the older members very rarely visit and post here anymore.

   

people come and go on here and in all walks of life ... new blood good for most forums however shame some older members feel that way but think it was also to do with posts being deleted / controlled and no critisim of ionics or talking about diy systems being allowed (apparently) as well as the newbies taking over the asylum   .... ive been over  to the other forum that a lot of the older guys have moved to but Im not a poster on there.