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So paying someone to do brakes on all 4 corners just costs $1k these days.

Steve300xcw said:
Same parts?
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Can't say. He took it into a tire shop for a tire issue, and that's just what they quoted him. The $260 I spent was for mid-grade stuff at O'Reilly. Car is an Impreza that he commutes in on the days he needs car seats. It might get 5k miles/year with zero hard driving.
 
When I bought my 78 f250, the guy had recently paid about $1300 for all new brakes :eek:

Cheap brakes are getting harder to find, but dayum
 
Most on here are unaffected by this.

Price gouging for people who are not handy, much like any other industry doing the same...

On Monday I replaced passenger wheel hub assembly, both front rotors and pads on my moms 2011 Impala.

Total cost was $260 in parts via my friend who has a business account with them (at his cost). Wheel speed sensor is built into the hub and an original one had a wire break off inside of the sensor (no way to solder it), decided to do the rotors as the old ones were pitted/had grooves on the outter edge. New pads of course, bedded the brakes after.

Very thankful for having an access to an automotive shop with hoist/tools :), sure beats doing it on the ground.

Good friends are priceless, and I make sure to reciprocate, just yesterday I bought us a metric tap/die set which will reside in the shop, just like some other tools I have bought in the past. He uses them more often, vs on a per need basis in my case.
 

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landscraper said:
It might get 5k miles/year with zero hard driving.
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Thats a red flag right there :laughing:

Unless I know them and have dealt with them multiple times. Somebody says that and that means... "I want it fixed with the cheapest shit you can get your hands on. But I'm going to bitch if it isnt as good as the high end parts" Also 100% chance that rig is going on a road trip to tour every state within 3 months.
 
They figured out that people will pay 6-700 a while ago. may as well make it an even $1000. I'm in the wrong business. Mobile brake service would kill it. Aside of getting those stupid philips head countersunk MFers out. I just drill them out now
 
Had to replace seized front calipers on my truck less than a year ago. Let a bit to much fluid out while doing so and had to go to a shop to get the abs bled. Computers suck. Was chatting with the service manager and he said that if I had them replace the calipers it would have been over $700. Still cost me $250, but half of that was my fault. I had reused a crush washer because one of the new ones was damaged in shipping.
 
Splib said:
Anyone do regen brake system pads on a Hybrid ?
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Regen braking in everything EV/hybrid I've seen, works by using the drive motor(s) as a generator to pump electrons back into the battery, doesn't involve the wheel brakes at all.
 
Jackie Treehorn said:
I haven’t turned a rotor in over 20 years. If the rig is something I care about it gets new rotors. If I don’t care about it it just gets new pads slapped on.
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I never have. I've made a half-assed effort a couple times, but the only old guy who knows how to spell "lathe" comes in to the store on alternate Thursday at 4:45pm, and you have to schedule ahead, blahblah.
 
Local shop wants $440 to do the rear brakes on a 2016 RAV4 with slip-on rotors. Lug nuts, caliper bolts, pry out pads, c clamp the piston, slap in pads, put back together. Takes me less than an hour. $105 for Bosch pads and new AC Delco Rotors.
 
My local O'Reilly's "says" they turn drums and rotors. I wouldn't trust them to turn on the motor. The "manager" told me my 1968 drums were Out of Tolerance. I asked to see how he determined that. He showed me a vernier caliper and proceeded to check and told me "it's out be XX thousandths." So how many 1/32s are in a thousandth? That caliper was clearly marked in 1/32" increments! I did the math on my phone and the drum was fine. Nope. I can't trust you now. You didn't what you were doing two minutes ago, you don't know now.
 
KacksterK5 said:
They figured out that people will pay 6-700 a while ago. may as well make it an even $1000. I'm in the wrong business. Mobile brake service would kill it. Aside of getting those stupid philips head countersunk MFers out. I just drill them out now
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Hand impact driver, couple bangs and they're out 9 times out of 10.
Etyler2 said:
This has potential. What about if it’s rusty?
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I'm in Canada, rust when doing brakes is never a big deal. Yeah the rotors are seized to the hubs, but you just get a BFH and smash them off. I never machine rotors, replace is cheap, so I don't care if I destroy the rotor taking it off.
 
Steve300xcw said:
Thats a red flag right there :laughing:

Unless I know them and have dealt with them multiple times. Somebody says that and that means... "I want it fixed with the cheapest shit you can get your hands on. But I'm going to bitch if it isnt as good as the high end parts" Also 100% chance that rig is going on a road trip to tour every state within 3 months.
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Normally it would be. :laughing:

The guy that owns the car works for me. He drives a company truck home 80% of the time, and his Subaru is their secondary kid hauler. On top of that, I've known him for 20+ years and know he's not an aggressive driver.

What I'm wondering about is if the shop was trying to sell him rotors he doesn't need. We're doing the brakes tomorrow, and I'm going to see if the rotors really need to be replaced.
 
Dealer charged my last employer 480.00 to turn the front rotors, new pads, I didn't even know anyone turned rotors any more.
My brother sold all his brake machines years ago except for one that hasn't been used in 8-9 yrs.
 
Treefrog said:
Had to replace seized front calipers on my truck less than a year ago. Let a bit to much fluid out while doing so and had to go to a shop to get the abs bled. Computers suck. Was chatting with the service manager and he said that if I had them replace the calipers it would have been over $700. Still cost me $250, but half of that was my fault. I had reused a crush washer because one of the new ones was damaged in shipping.
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For $250 you probably could have purchased the scan tool needed to bleed the ABS depending on what rig it is.
 
I jusst replaced calipers on 2 diff vehicles (99 sd and 04 burban) and they were $120 and $85 ea.

Rotors are $100 on just about everything i own.

04 burban pads (f/r) were $250 for the "fleet" /best.

The sd needs pads at least 1 pr of pads every year and im sick of it. I dont even drive it fast. I round trip 60m a day in the mountains, no o/d and down shift on the big grades to not ride the brakes. I do about 40-45 mph unless its the 2 straight aways.

Totalgirlfriend smoked pads in her tahoe 2x a year.
 
My last brake job cost me just over $1000 in parts. $650 of it was brand new 4 pot Brembo calipers for the front to replace the factory single piston ones. Low dust ceramic pads, drilled German rotors, OE Porsche Brembo calipers, fluid to bleed. Through a shop would have been ridiculous (Audi tax).

My wifes Q7 was $450 for fronts and rear rotors/pads last time I did them.
 
Clb said:
Money
If you have any, they want it.
Some of these "replace everything " idiots are nuts.
Now sometimes it's cheaper than having rotors turned.
Shit my favorite machine shop stopped turning and sold the equipment.
Fubar
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Gotta replace everything or it will be back. Calipers, brackets, slides, rotors pads.
 
Alpine4x4 said:
For $250 you probably could have purchased the scan tool needed to bleed the ABS depending on what rig it is.
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There was conflicting info on what scan tools could do it if at all. Cheapest maybe was over 400. Wasn't worth it for a truck that I plan to replace within a year or so. And I probably wouldn't have caught the crush washer before I completely lost brakes.
 
I’d imagine they fuck you on anything you take your vehicle in fir compared to what it cost to do yourself. Not just brakes.
 
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