Brake help
I have had a rubbing noise coming from my rear brakes the last few days. So i took my car over to Monro to see what was wrong. They ended up telling me that my rear brakes have been sticking. So to make a long story short they said I need new calipers & pads as well as getting my rotors resurfaced. BUT they are trying to charge me $650 for the whole job! $60-resurfacing pads, $500- new rear calipers & pads plus labor, $30 - exchanging fluids, & some other bullcrap charge bringing it up to $658.05 grand total Does this sound right to you guys?
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anytime you take it to a stealership its expensive. go buy the stuff and do it yourself. its an easy job.
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rear pads $25 at autozone. New fluide $6 at whatever parts store you like. Brake grease (very high temp stuff) is 99cents a pack and 2 packs will do the rear. Then its all just your labor. Its pretty easy to do if you have never done it you can buy a hanyes manual and read threw it first on how to remove the calipers, pads,bleeding the system etc....
Your looking at maybe $100 once you resurface the rotors,lube the rear calipers. i have a hard time seeing them being frozen as they screw out as the pad wears. A simple cleaning and relubing of the slides on the caliper i bet will fix that. Trust me learn to do this yourself and save lots of money. |
Well thats a hell of a relief, I should have known since Monro tried telling me it would cost $900 to put dual exhaust on my car & that was with the stock y-pipe & crappy mufflers! I have a summer job at a body shop so it shouldnt be any trouble doing it myself. & to just get this straight, you dont think I need new calipers then either?
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you probably don't need new calipers. places like that will fill you up with so much shit to get extra cash out of you.
buy a manual, pop the tires off, and see whats up |
I dont think you do. The rear calipers on are cars screw in and out like a nut on a bolt; so when you press the brake pedal it pushes fluide onto them and screw them out thats what gives you breaking in the rear. I dont seem them getting totaly stuck. I would do it yourself and just relube the caliper slides and do pads and get the rotors resurfaced if needed.
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even if you do need new rear calipers they're stupid cheap and plentiful on the aftermarket.
Call up AM or my buddy Ken at http://www.speedconcepts.net/product...roducts_id=402 Ken's got them for 209 with pads. You use your stock caliper mounting bracket and the whole job should take you about an hour if you lag and have a beer. Watch the brake fluid reservoir while you do the swap... don't want to let it run out of fluid. |
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