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Old 03-22-2007, 09:51 PM   #29
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A brake job at the local dealer where I bought my Baja. $450 per axle and the guy said it with a straight face!!! Brought it to my service guy. He did all 4 wheels, lifetime pads, an oil change and new wipers (not blades, the whole shootin' match) for less than $400. The dealers seem to think they have ya by the b____s!
I may be lucky, I drive a mid 90's gm car I got from an old lady with 9,000 miles for a very low price. I do all the brake work myself and I can generally do my front axle for example for about 60.00. That includes installing brand new rotors. Never had a problem. Done it twice now on that car. I've never heard of 450 per axle. That is definately a rip off. Gonna crawl under the car this weekend and replace muffler and middle pipe. Takes some work to cut out but will save about 200.00 + instead of going to one of those "places" that does that. I've found those auto parts stores are pretty good with the warranties. I have a muffler I have replaced about 4 times now with free ones and I have gotten free brake pads too. Got that care up to 200,000 with buying 1 muffler. There are some rip offs out there, but it pays to shop around.
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