Animalmother
Flexed cracker
Paid $550 this week.
What they didn’t take your vehicle through the Micky d drive thru? You got lucky
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So paying someone to do brakes on all 4 corners just costs $1k these days.
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What they didn’t take your vehicle through the Micky d drive thru? You got lucky
Alpine4x4
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Some makes have standalone "scan tools" made for them. Audi has VAGCom, Ram/Dodge/Fiat has AlfaOBD, etc. They're like $50-100 plus a dongle or include the dongle for $200ish. Not all brands get lucky with having something standalone like that. VAGcom was $250 and has dealer level functionality. Its better than my Autel MP808. Generic scanners like Autel are stupid hit or miss on what functions they have for each brand. I "get" to repair all the cars in my family so having the Autel is nice, especially since I got it as a gift from said family for doing all the repairs
GM Guy
rollin' along...
Unless you know the guy at the shop, the parts quotes are all retail + markup. And the slicksters will talk it up like they are giving you a discount when they rattle off some higher number while on the phone with the parts guy. Unless you have a contact, or do it yourself you are going to pay for it.
Gtrplyr78
Nuttin’
How is that Cruiser at just about 400k?Paid $550 this week.
east_beast
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A good family friend bought it new. He was an eye doctor who owned multiple clinics throughout western NC and was a big Georgia Bulldogs football fan who went to literally every game and hated to fly. He put a LOT of highway miles on it. I bought it from him about three years ago, well actually from his daughter. Unfortunately he developed dementia and had to go into assisted living. The vast majority of the miles were put on the first ten years or so.
Still runs and drives great. The wife is currently DDing it. Here daily commute is probably only about ten miles round trip.
Etyler2
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Haha I’m waiting for Jimmy Numbers on the rust I was attempting to be funny. He wrote a novel here on the subject.
Most people have no tools, no mechanical sense, and no desire to get sweaty or dirty. So the shops can charge whatever they want. I did all 4 brakes, pads, rotors turned ($10/each at oreilleys near me), calipers, axle shafts, shocks, and struts on my wife's Honda Odyssey last year. Rock auto parts was something like $550 all together. The cheapest mechanic shop wanted $2500 to do the job. Took me all weekend working off and on in my driveway to save two grand.
Most people on this forum would do the work to save $2000. Most of America can't or won't. Same reason my 9 year old has the entire neighborhood on a plan for him to clean out their trash cans. $10 a can, he does 40 houses every other month, some have multiple cans. People are lazy, worthless fucks with more money than sense. The end.
Most people on this forum would do the work to save $2000. Most of America can't or won't. Same reason my 9 year old has the entire neighborhood on a plan for him to clean out their trash cans. $10 a can, he does 40 houses every other month, some have multiple cans. People are lazy, worthless fucks with more money than sense. The end.
Landslide
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I see those hotrod mopars, mustangs m, cameros, vetts & etc with the huge red calipers and big rotors and think they’re gonna hate the cost of new brakes when the time comes. Good standard stuff is expensive, no idea how much the race rated stuff cost but it has to be close to double.
Landslide
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I could never understand why they charged more to do disc brakes vs drum brakes back in the day. Cars for a long time were drum rear disc front. I do all my own work like that so I’m out of touch with labor cost on brake jobs
TRINDU
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Some makes have standalone "scan tools" made for them. Audi has VAGCom, Ram/Dodge/Fiat has AlfaOBD, etc. They're like $50-100 plus a dongle or include the dongle for $200ish. Not all brands get lucky with having something standalone like that. VAGcom was $250 and has dealer level functionality. Its better than my Autel MP808. Generic scanners like Autel are stupid hit or miss on what functions they have for each brand. I "get" to repair all the cars in my family so having the Autel is nice, especially since I got it as a gift from said family for doing all the repairs
Yep, a higher end autel is nice. I have alfa, forscan, and vag/vcds. I haven't ponied up for HP tuners yet.
It's not terrible if you know what you're doing. I bought bigger calipers, thus bigger rotors, for my VW. it's the same cost as 'stock' parts. It only gets stupid when people jack off to certain pads and rotors.
Lbhsbz
Toyota Fag
Shop labor is $200/hour + anymore....and they need to charge that. Parts are marked up from what you normal pay, because they're delivered an hour after the shop makes the call, not 2 or 5 days later.
Don't like it, do you own work.
Don't like it, do you own work.
Think it might be coming down Rte 299 a lot ?
Cameronswmp9
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Corporate auto aftermarket shop: $420+tax for pads and rotors most cars, mist SUVs and trucks $450ish. Use high quality aftermarket parts and pack a good warranty.
However, for my truck $30 pad slap works well, replace rotors as needed typically due to warp. Check them every oil change/tire rotation, rears are coming soon.
A buddy was going to come to the shop and get his brakes done, we did them last night in his driveway for $110 brake kit from rock auto. Decent parts but nothing crazy. 14 CRV
However, for my truck $30 pad slap works well, replace rotors as needed typically due to warp. Check them every oil change/tire rotation, rears are coming soon.
A buddy was going to come to the shop and get his brakes done, we did them last night in his driveway for $110 brake kit from rock auto. Decent parts but nothing crazy. 14 CRV
Alpine4x4
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Brakes are all relatively cheap until you start getting into specific pad compounds or ceramic rotors. Audi ceramic brakes cost $10,000 in parts alone to R&R, but they also have a life span of 100k+ miles in a performance application. Brakes on vettes, mopars, M cars, S cars, AMG's, etc are usually just standard steel rotors either dimpled, drilled, slotted, or a combo of the three and ceramic pads on Brembo calipers from the factory.
Yup its useful in the fact I can quickly and easily scan stuff without dragging out the laptop and makes it easy when family has vehicles other than Ram or VAG stuff. I havent had the need for Forscan or HPTuners yet thankfully.
ANGRYBLACK
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Ha! My oldest boy did that in our subdivision when he was around that age. When it came time for him to buy his 1st car i gave him my cherry low miles ramcharger. My boy had more than enough saved up to buy his own car. He spent none of the trash can fund.
You have a young hustler there
total newb
senior jerk ass
Not daily.
In fact i dont think my sd has been to redding 3x in the last year
I do go over scott mt at least 1x every 2 months but again, no od down the north side and 2nd gear down the south.
My daily is tc to weaverville and back.
2000' to 3000' back down to 2000' on mild winding roads with no heavy grades.
People are fucking stupid. They buy a vehicle like a Charger or Durango with Brembo brakes and then freak out when their front pads are $800. Or they buy a Cummins and or 3.0L diesel and then freak out about $350 oil and fuel filter changes. Or they buy something with 20" rims and then bitch because their tires are $100 more than the 17" tires on the beater they traded in. No one forced them to buy the expensive shit. And no one forced them to bring it back to the dealer for basic maintenance on a 12 year old car.
billdacat
No road...no problem.
SNOB! I put on the cheapest Mexican rebuilt calipers I can find. It was usually $20 bucks out the door!
Roc Doc
2A SNBI
I remember in my HS Auto Shop we had one of those grinder thingies to make the arc of the shoes match the arc of the drums, I'm sure those are long gone too.
Brad
Jackass
Johnny Longrifle
Slow learner
I just about shit my pants today when I overheard my service writer giving an $1850 estimate for front pads and rotors. No calipers, no fluid flush, just pads and rotors. 20 min job, tops. 2019 Silverado 3500 SRW. Charged him for $600 each rotor! 
I was pissed for the customer, and also because management is always telling me that I am overpaid.
I get $79.50 out of that $1800
I was pissed for the customer, and also because management is always telling me that I am overpaid.I get $79.50 out of that $1800
billdacat
No road...no problem.
Fuck yeah...You also got to breathe in the asbestos dust from arcing shoes....
I always hated doing drums... Neighbor sees me puting the Jeep on stands... Comes over and fucking does the rear drums on my Jeep in 10 minutes while drinking beer. I learnd a few tricks from him and now rear drums don't bother me!
east_beast
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I just about shit my pants today when I overheard my service writer giving an $1850 estimate for front pads and rotors. No calipers, no fluid flush, just pads and rotors. 20 min job, tops. 2019 Silverado 3500 SRW. Charged him for $600 each rotor!
I get $79.50 out of that $1800
That's the way artificial inflation works. When inflation is high it conditions people to expect higher prices so whether your significantly impacted by higher costs or not you jack up your prices. It all goes into the bosses' pocket while they tell the rank and file how lucky they are to have a job.
Roc Doc
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And the asbestos floor and ceiling tiles in my grade school. Safety for the children
Alpine4x4
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My calipers werent even bad, I just didnt like how the one large single piston braked. After a few hard brakes your shit had a great shudder to it under any amount of braking. Burned the inner pad off without even scratching the outer pad. Plus they were heavy as fuck. I lost weight, got even pad clamping force, and no more "warped" brakes.SNOB! I put on the cheapest Mexican rebuilt calipers I can find. It was usually $20 bucks out the door!
TRINDU
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The second fuel filter above the rear axle is retarded AND expensive.
Its $60 for oil, $80 in fuel filters. I guess that's a minimum hour of labor @ $200.
Keep slinging them parts, the owner needs a new boat.
Clb
another toyota from P.R.K
China supplier has to stop
Clb
another toyota from P.R.K
Lbhsbz
Toyota Fag
Good...they would have probably fucked it up anyway. I spent 20 years trying to educate shops how to turn rotors correctly rather than machining more runout into them than they had in the first place. I got through a few guys...the rest of them were to stupid to understand what they were doing. New rotors are better because some "I've been doing this for 30 years...don't tell me how to do my job" mouthbreather hasn't had the opportunity to fuck them up yet.