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My wife used to compose ads like this for the weekly “Penny Saver” in her home town.

We have laughed for years over the first-drafts of the supermarket ads putting “pork lion” on sale!

The people who composed the ad are the ones who screwed up - and that likely was not the dealership. I would have been more concerned if the pictured auto part was the alternator, instead of the disk “breaks”.

Ha! I worked advertisng dept’s for daily newspapers for many years. One that comes to mind (one of many) Insect repellent was the item. We ran Incest repellent. You could hear the ad director screaming from outside his closed office door. Nobody got fired but there was a healthy discount on the ad.

Yes, I was impressed they actually pictured the right part!

Of course, you CAN have disc brake "breaks"...

So maybe a "Break Check" is not such a bad idea.

I wrote the dealer and asked which parts they are going to inspect for breaks.

Isn't English fun?

Disc vs. disk
There is no consensus on the difference between disc and disk, and in many contexts the two are used interchangeably. Disk is the standard spelling for computer-related terms such as hard disk and floppy disk. Disc is the standard spelling for phonograph records, albums (in the figurative sense—a group of songs presented in sequence), and components of plows and brake systems. But both spellings are commonly used for (1) CDs, DVDs, and other compact optical disks; (2) flat, plate-like bones; (3) flat, circular objects, and (4) disk-shaped celestial bodies. There are trends: disc is more common than disk for CDs, DVDs, etc. and plate-like bones, and disk is more common for disk-shaped things in outer space. But these trends are not so pronounced as to be conclusive.

I want to know how the British spelling took over in the United States...

disk (n.)
1660s, "round, approximately flat surface," from Latin discus "quoit, discus, disk," from Greek diskos "disk, quoit, platter," related to dikein "to throw" (see discus).
The American English preferred spelling; also see disc.
From 1803 as "thin, circular plate;" sense of "phonograph disk" is by 1888; computing sense is from 1947. Disk jockey first recorded 1941; dee-jay is from 1955; DJ is by 1961; video version veejay is from 1982. Disk-drive is from 1952.

disc (n.) Latinate spelling preferred in British English for most uses of disk (q.v.). American English tends to use it in the musical recording sense (1888); originally of phonograph records, recently of compact discs.

"Disc" is an affectation. It's "disk" for me.