Mercedes GLE: Wooden Brake Pads Found in €100K SUV | PiataAuto.md

If a car happens to not brake with the expected effect, the causes can be several, but probably no one would imagine that the reason for the ineffective brakes could be the wooden pads. A German was recently downright horrified when he discovered wooden brake pads, with the inscription Brembo on them, on a €100,000 Mercedes GLE freshly bought at an auction. The German decided to call the police.

It all happened two days ago in the Ludwigsburg region of Germany, where an employee of a company went to receive a car that his company had just purchased from an auction, the car worth 100,000 euros. It was a Mercedes GLE 400, and apparently that was the original value of the car, with the company buying it at a reduced price at that auction.

The police were intrigued by this case and accompanied the flatbed truck to an official Mercedes service. The car was put into service for a professional examination and a state check, under the supervision of the police. The mechanics became suspicious as soon as they saw the sawdust burned on the rims.

When they removed the wheels, everyone was still. The front brakes had wooden pads, cut exactly according to the contour of the original ones, to fit the car’s calipers.

The artisan carpenter, who worked here, also completed his work with the Brembo inscription, written by hand, with a carioca.

The wooden plates were confiscated by the police as evidence, and the police opened a criminal investigation, with the previous seller of the car currently being the main suspect responsible for the car.

The police in Germany say that all this work demonstrates the clear intention to mount these plates on the car, so it will not be possible to say that it was just an involuntary escape.

The Germans don’t understand why someone would spend several hours of work to precisely cut wooden plates to mount them on discs, instead of buying second-hand plates, possibly from a licensed manufacturer, not necessarily original. Either way, labor time would have negated any savings made here.

But it seems that the car was in the hands of someone for whom time is not worth that much and for whom, apparently, the life and safety of other people is not of much value either.

And it’s absolutely incredible to find that this could happen on a ditamai Mercedes GLE 400, such an expensive car, and the representative of the buying company was allowed to drive it like that.