Topic: Pretty much done with dealership - may have found a good Indie Shop

[Fobroader]

$1100 for brakes on Rio5? 

Either you are hard one brakes or this dealership likes to sell brakes.

Must be the track package Rio CSL-R with the 8 piston brembos 

[Hannibalsmith]

$1100 for brakes on Rio5? 

Either you are hard one brakes or this dealership likes to sell brakes.

Must be the track package Rio CSL-R with the 8 piston brembos 

I wasn't going to comment, but $1,100 (including tax) seems pretty reasonable for a full brake job, including rotors and pads. Notwithstanding the issue of longevity, am I out of base here?

[tortoise]

I've never paid more than $600 all in.

[Fobroader]

$1100 for brakes on Rio5? 

Either you are hard one brakes or this dealership likes to sell brakes.

Must be the track package Rio CSL-R with the 8 piston brembos 

I wasn't going to comment, but $1,100 (including tax) seems pretty reasonable for a full brake job, including rotors and pads. Notwithstanding the issue of longevity, am I out of base here?

Seeing as how its a Rio, the parts shouldn't be more than a few hundred bucks....labor, if you have access to a hoist and tools, if you are longer than 2 hours you are f$%king around a lot. My buddy and I did a pad and disc change on all the corners of his WRX in less than an hour in my garage with handtools. Putting all 4 corners up on jackstands was the longest part of the task.

[dirtyjeffer]

well, i bring the Sorento to the Indie tomorrow morning...i'll update you at the end of the day with how it went.

[ktm525]

$1100 for brakes on Rio5? 

Either you are hard one brakes or this dealership likes to sell brakes.

Must be the track package Rio CSL-R with the 8 piston brembos 

I wasn't going to comment, but $1,100 (including tax) seems pretty reasonable for a full brake job, including rotors and pads. Notwithstanding the issue of longevity, am I out of base here?

Yes you are. I bought a front kit (rotors/pads) for the Ridgeline for about $150. So all parts front rear would be Around $300. Two hours of labour mas and I am at $500. The rest is gravy.

[dirtyjeffer]

you guys are comparing buying parts yourself and doing the jobs yourself...you can't compare that to a shop...but yes, the dealership was obviously too expensive, and why i wasn't about to make that mistake again.

[johngenx]

My indie charges about $250 an axle for brakes on cars like Corollas and other compacts. Typical four wheel brake job would be <$600 with taxes. Last April I did the fronts on the highlander myself as my caliper seized. Out of curiosity I asked him how much it would have been to have him do it. About $600 for the fronts including new calipers and discs, etc.  I spent about $450 on parts.

Including new calipers.

An $1100-1200 brake job on the highlander would include basically new everything. Calipers, discs, pads, labour, everything.  And highlander parts are more expensive than Rio parts. Not pricey or anything, but a little bump up from compact car prices.

[Fobroader]

you guys are comparing buying parts yourself and doing the jobs yourself...you can't compare that to a shop...but yes, the dealership was obviously too expensive, and why i wasn't about to make that mistake again.

No, we are just trying to tell you that you got royally hosed and any new shop should be charging more than about 5-600 for a car like that Rio. Which I still don't get why you wouldn't do at home for the next to nothing cost or effort....to each his own I guess.

[aquadorhj]

for a bimmer, front and back, rotors and pad, i would say 1100ish is around in-line for a dealership.
rotors are like 150 a piece, pads are 100+ for each axle, so roughly 4 hour book time, and it's 1000 easy.  at a dealer.

so i can see your point there, HS.   

for Rio, though.. that seems little excessive, unless they were replacing all the calipers too.

me, of course, i do it myself for 500.  just the parts.

[KD]

Dealer wanted $675 to do my front brakes last week, so I said ok do it.  Then they told me they had to order the parts in, then they smashed my car, so I said it and ordered my own parts for ~$300 and will be doing it myself tonight.   

[Ex-airbalancer]

Dealer wanted $675 to do my front brakes last week, so I said ok do it.  Then they told me they had to order the parts in, then they smashed my car, so I said it and ordered my own parts for ~$300 and will be doing it myself tonight.   

 

[tortoise]

you guys are comparing buying parts yourself and doing the jobs yourself...you can't compare that to a shop...but yes, the dealership was obviously too expensive, and why i wasn't about to make that mistake again.

My price was buying parts and having my shop install them.

[ktm525]

I bet the Land Rover dealer would charge $2000k to do all 4 corners (pads and rotors). I may phone and ask.

[tenpenny]

I took my Explorer to one of those oil change shops a few years ago, they said I needed a cabin air filter changed, I said, yeah, I know, I bought one yesterday, it’s on the back seat, I plan to do it this weekend, they put it in for free since they had to put the old one back in anyway.

I was very surprised and impressed.


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[Dante]

In my experience with few mainstream brands over the past 15 years, a break job (OEM rotors and pads) for all 4 corners is about $1000-$1200 plus tax for parts and labor at the dealership. Perhaps these days (I haven't done one lately) may be even more.

Indy labor in my experience is $50-$60 per corner with your parts.

[2JDM]

I just got my brakes replaced at BMW dealer in London for ~$1000 all in.

2 Euro indie shops in Ottawa charged about $1150 using OEM equivalent box parts, one of the dealers quoted $1500.

YMMV.

[HeliDriver]

My wife had to get the brakes done on the Yukon while I was out of town last summer. I ordered pads & rotors from RockAuto for C$510 ($160 of which was shipping & duties.)

She took it to our local dealer to have the work done because they're generally decent and it was convenient. They charged $550 for installation and another $150 for a brake fluid flush.

So, around $1,200 total, which I thought was kind of excessive, but what are you gonna do? Might even have been cheaper just to get the OE parts from the dealer, but the stock pads were total crap and I didn't want them again. And I wasn't going to send my wife to NAPA to buy pads & rotors either, so was kind of stuck.

Oh, well. Brakes are now better than they ever were, so I'm ok with it.

[johngenx]

but the stock pads were total crap

Subaru too, worst OE brake parts, ever.

[dirtyjeffer]

No, we are just trying to tell you that you got royally hosed and any new shop should be charging more than about 5-600 for a car like that Rio. Which I still don't get why you wouldn't do at home for the next to nothing cost or effort....to each his own I guess.

i realize it was too expensive, hence this thread. 

i can't do it myself...i lack the tools and equipment to do it, plus i have a ruined back, so wrenching on my car is not an option.