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08-02-2019, 05:55 PM
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Whats the cost of truck brakes these days
I just got billed Just over $750 for back brakes on my half ton truck! It needed rotors but thought this was excessive. Shop rate is $150 an hr I was told as well. Sounds crazy. I havn't done brakes for a while in a truck so just wondering
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08-02-2019, 06:14 PM
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Just did the brakes on my 2009 2500 chevy. Bought the second best rotors and pads they had. 360 bux all in. Took 35 minutes to do both sides. That's for the front. I was workin in g.p, got rained out so got a quote it was 1800 for 600 dollars worth of parts. Google it up its a piece of cake to do brakes. Get a good c-clamp.
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08-02-2019, 06:24 PM
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^^^This
I do them myself as well. A piece of cake to slap on some new rotors and pads.
I’m not about to pay the stealership 3 hours of labour for a job I can do easily in 45 minutes.
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08-02-2019, 06:45 PM
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Very easy to do yourself. I have never paid for brake work and try to avoid stealer ships at all costs. Even regular garages charge a lot for something so simple
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08-02-2019, 08:45 PM
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35 minutes?!? Heck, takes me 20 minutes to jack the vehicle up and to charge the air compressor. But yes, if you've got the tools and some time, it's not hard. Likely a youtube video showing step-by-step instructions online.
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08-02-2019, 08:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Trochu
35 minutes?!? Heck, takes me 20 minutes to jack the vehicle up and to charge the air compressor. But yes, if you've got the tools and some time, it's not hard. Likely a youtube video showing step-by-step instructions online.
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08-02-2019, 08:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Buckhead
^^^This
I do them myself as well. A piece of cake to slap on some new rotors and pads.
I’m not about to pay the stealership 3 hours of labour for a job I can do easily in 45 minutes.
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08-02-2019, 09:45 PM
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I priced out my Ram 2500 at the local mechs about three weeks back. They wanted $1200 for front and rears.
Did the rears last week with a buddy. Parts were:
brake pads $109.24
brake rotors $211.49
Need to get around to doing the fronts next. I think the front rotors are abit more IIRC.
All in for parts (all four) will prob be about $700 give or take
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08-02-2019, 09:50 PM
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2006 chev
New front pads , coated rotors , new lines and calipers + wheel bearings 1000$ and 2 hours with no prior truck repair knowledge. I'll never pay again. Imo most shops hire morons.
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08-02-2019, 10:09 PM
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Brakes are as easy as it gets to do. I buy my parts from Rockauto.com and save a bunch there too.
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08-02-2019, 10:12 PM
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I’ve thought about having a mechanic buddy of mine do the brakes and rotors on my plow truck but it’s so easy and I can save the labor why not just do it myself.
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08-02-2019, 10:18 PM
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I’ve thought about having a mechanic buddy of mine do the brakes and rotors on my plow truck but it’s so easy and I can save the labor why not just do it myself.
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Trick is to get the old rotors off, I've found. Can't find the video, but it involves using one of the Caliper bolts to put pressure on the rotor, Just pops of.
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08-02-2019, 10:21 PM
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Order your parts off either rock auto or partsking.
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08-02-2019, 10:40 PM
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Just did pads and rotors on my 2011 f350. 430k on it and was getting a bad pulse in the front on the breaks hard, pulling my 40’ toyhauler often I figured I’d give it some love
Napa premium coated rotors front and rears were 130 each and a set of back pads was 110. I found a new set of front pads in the shop
Took me under 3 hours and I had 1 front rotor I had to smack the sh1t out of so bad I broke it getting it off and 1 rear caliber that was seized that I had to break free and clean up
Milwaukee 1/2” impact made the job very easy and paid for itself. ( how I pitched it to the wife lol)
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08-03-2019, 04:22 AM
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Being as how it is about trucks, ponder this.
16.5x7 drum brake, 50.00/wheel for relined shoes w/ hdwe and drums @ 117.00 /wheel, drum weighs 90lbs.
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08-03-2019, 04:43 AM
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Brakes are as easy as it gets to do.
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^^^ This. Almost as easy as dooing an Oil change.
A good friend was quoted $800 for JUST back brakes on his older Dakota, told him to buy new pads & rotors and bring it over. He is not mechanically inclined and really wanted no part of learning how to do them himself.
By the time we were done he was absolutely amazed at how easy they were to do and now does his own dispite a lack of automotive repair knowledge.
Said he felt silly and a little violated for spending all that money on brake jobs over the years.
Told him dooing your own Oil changes and brake jobs is part of keeping his man card.
And $150 an hour for labor is STEEP! Unless your in the Mac..
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08-03-2019, 04:50 AM
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Originally Posted by pikeman06
Just did the brakes on my 2009 2500 chevy. Bought the second best rotors and pads they had. 360 bux all in. Took 35 minutes to do both sides. That's for the front. I was workin in g.p, got rained out so got a quote it was 1800
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Jebus, $1800 is straight up theft! 
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08-03-2019, 10:58 AM
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Everything in that place is gonna cost you...it's so busy up there, they charge whatever they want basically. That was a chev dealership I'm sure crappy tire would be cheaper but of course they couldn't get it in for three days. Yes 35 minutes. If you got a good jack so you can do both sides at once, the tools you need in your hand, a good impact wrench it could probably done quicker. Once the wheels are off you got 2 bolts on each caliper and 2 on the caliper bracket. Turn the wheels inward to get at them easily. Don't hang the caliper from the brake hose set it up on the control arm or wire it to something. Have what you need in your hand so you aren't wasting time stumbling around. A good c clamp is a must especially if you let them go too long...can be tough to push those caliper pistons back.
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08-03-2019, 01:37 PM
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A good mechanic could probably get that done on the wife's Jeep in that time.
Jack up the rear with a 6 ton jack, 2 stands for safety, my impact makes short work of the 5 lug nuts/side, then only 2 long bolts per side holding the calipers. Once the calipers are off, there's nothing else retaining the rotors, so they just slide right off.
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08-03-2019, 01:41 PM
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I think last time I paid a shop to do front pads (forget whether it needed rotors) it was $300-$350, and I was ticked I didn't do it myself. Seems to me it was there for something else minor, so it'd be easy.
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08-04-2019, 08:15 PM
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Well, just saying it's not always a RIP off. Last year I was gonna do my brakes on my 2500hd myself as usual. I priced out the parts at napa and then the dealer. Ended up talking to the service dude, and they had a deal on that it only costed $100 more than doing it myself. I said yes please!
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08-04-2019, 10:03 PM
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Originally Posted by dfarms11
Well, just saying it's not always a RIP off. Last year I was gonna do my brakes on my 2500hd myself as usual. I priced out the parts at napa and then the dealer. Ended up talking to the service dude, and they had a deal on that it only costed $100 more than doing it myself. I said yes please!
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That’s a great deal!
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08-05-2019, 08:12 AM
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Curious how often guys are having to do their brakes. Just did the front rotors, pads and rear shoes on my wife's 2007 Honda Fit.First brake job on this vehicle since new at 200,000 km mostly city stop and go.
But it is a manual and we downshift wherever possible.
On the other spectrum I had a new 2001 Chev Malibu for a work vehicle and had to panic stop for some deer on the highway and it was enough to warp the rotors with under 3k on the odometer
I often see late model trucks for sale on Auto Trader that claim the brakes were just done and the vehicle only has about 40,000 km
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08-05-2019, 08:13 AM
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My last truck I had 350,000 on did the brakes twice
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08-05-2019, 08:34 AM
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Originally Posted by Grizzly Adams
Trick is to get the old rotors off, I've found. Can't find the video, but it involves using one of the Caliper bolts to put pressure on the rotor, Just pops of.
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Big hammer and a set of ear plugs.
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08-05-2019, 08:37 AM
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Originally Posted by omega50
Curious how often guys are having to do their brakes. Just did the front rotors, pads and rear shoes on my wife's 2007 Honda Fit.First brake job on this vehicle since new at 200,000 km mostly city stop and go.
But it is a manual and we downshift wherever possible.
On the other spectrum I had a new 2001 Chev Malibu for a work vehicle and had to panic stop for some deer on the highway and it was enough to warp the rotors with under 3k on the odometer
I often see late model trucks for sale on Auto Trader that claim the brakes were just done and the vehicle only has about 40,000 km
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2008 Dodge Grand Caravan - known for having poor brakes. First set was at 18K km and it needed new calipers, rotors and pads on the front, and new rotors and pads on the back. Been done at least 6 times since then and only have 165K km on the damn thing. I'm on the third set of front calipers.
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08-05-2019, 08:43 AM
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I just did the brakes on my f150 and decided to try Max Brakes. Ordered all four rotors (coated) and all pads online for $292.00. Can't say how well the longevity will be as the price seemed almost to good to be true compared to everywhere else I tried but so far so good. Fitment good, stopping power good, quiet. Took a while to get them though as they were sold out of most everything for my truck. Brakes are easy to do.
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08-05-2019, 12:20 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by omega50
Curious how often guys are having to do their brakes. Just did the front rotors, pads and rear shoes on my wife's 2007 Honda Fit.First brake job on this vehicle since new at 200,000 km mostly city stop and go.
But it is a manual and we downshift wherever possible.
On the other spectrum I had a new 2001 Chev Malibu for a work vehicle and had to panic stop for some deer on the highway and it was enough to warp the rotors with under 3k on the odometer
I often see late model trucks for sale on Auto Trader that claim the brakes were just done and the vehicle only has about 40,000 km
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I have done a few brake jobs on min vans, cars and my 1/4 ton. I think the big thing is what parts you are using.
Certain rotors have no venting or are made of lesser metal then others that are designed better. Pads have more or less ceramic and heat up the rotors more
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08-05-2019, 12:39 PM
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Order your parts off either rock auto or partsking.
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Couple years ago my daughter and soninlaw were complaining about bad brakes on their Toyota yaris.
They actually wore the front pads right down to the rivets and they damaged the rotors . Toyota dealer wanted $1188 to do front and rear brakes .
We bought pads/shoes/rotors/drums/hardware kits for $193 shipped at rockauto .
I did one side , soninlaw watched and did the other . Took about a day with beer breaks.
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