Thread: OT -- good place for brake job in east valley?
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Old 11-05-2003, 04:13 PM
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Be careful at any specialty auto repair shop (as opposed to a general repair shop) they are so geared to boosting the price. I sent my wife to Brake Masters once when I was too busy to do our van's. At that time it was 4 yrs old and had about 40K on it, all AZ miles. Along with the regular pad replacement and turning for their advertised priced they wanted to replace all the springs and retainers ("that stuff rusts ya know, a spring could break and lock up your rear brakes!") and rebuild both front calipers because one was 'sticking'. (they won't rebuild just one side)
That was going to raise the price about 300%. I told them to button it back up and I did it myself that weekend. It was all total BS of course.
A teacher at our kids school got hosed for a $600.00 job on a SUV with similar milage at the same shop.

Mike
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