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?

 

anytime you take it to a stealership its expensive. go buy the stuff and do it yourself. its an easy job.

 

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?

 

you probably don't need new calipers. places like that will fill you up with so much **** 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.

 

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.