Rear brakes? Have you had the front replaced? We have a 2018 with 120K and the factory pads are still in great shape.

I don’t think that price is too unreasonable for brakes at a stealership. I’d definitely price it at a local tire/brake shop.

Is that just pads or pads and rotors? Either way, price it against smaller local places if there are any around that are trustworthy. Might be able to get it done for less. That's not horrible, if is pads and rotors. If just pads that's high.

If it’s pads and rotors this price seems to be average

DIY for less than half even with purchasing tools.

Harbor freight / Walmart / YouTube / r/rockauto

It cost me to change my brakes both front and back rotors and pads for $800 Canadian. My mechanic. I find the Subaru is pricey to maintain

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Maybe? What year car? Mileage? Do. You have the quote you can take a picture of?

That's about double what it should be. A full set of rotors (drilled and slotted) with ceramic pads is about $400 from Summit Racing. At 30% margin that's still $1800 labor, 12 hours@ $150.00/hr. Using Subaru OEM parts is more $$$ but you didn't say if aftermarket or OEM.
As for "sticky" caliper they can be unstuck with a little attention. If it was in fact sticky those pads would have been dragging and worn excessively. Ask them to show you the pad measurements.
From here it sounds like a lot of high margin parts changing.

Man that's like an Audi brake job price. Did you take it in for braking issues, or was this quoted during another service? Look I work at a dealership and I get it, service advisors have to sell work to make money but this just seems downright dishonest.

He buggin, six yo cars dont need new calipers.Dab of grease maybe but they ain't need no replacing.Tell him to yoink someone else

2016 Impreza, I replaced all four rotors and pads in about three hours for less than $200 in parts (Dynamic Friction/Fully Coated from Rock Auto). Even at $200/hr flat rate it should not cost more than $1k.

Be grateful you don’t need to replace a caliper. I had one lock out when my mechanic was changing the front brakes. That alone cost more than your total bill, and it took almost 2 full weeks to get the replacement part, since there was only one JCW branded caliper in the whole country.

I cried.

Brakes are about the easiest diy with a couple of YouTube videos and an okay set of tools

The rear brakes portion of your quote is pretty close to what I just paid at an independent shop for rears on a 2021 ’S’ - I think the rear brakes are the same as the JCW.

If you find a shop that will let you supply the parts, buy the parts from FCP euro. Lifetime replacement guarantee. Pay for brakes once and never pay for replacement brakes again.

Also, brakes on a mini couldn't be easier if you can DIY. Full pads and rotors for mine were under $400.

You save by doing it yourself. There are good online vendors for parts. It’s really not a hard project. I recently upgraded my JCW rotors to slotted and drilled too.

Front Rotors and pads.... I was told it would be around $460.00... and a little bit more with pads.... Mechanic called me to Approve work order... I did for rotor replacement and pads then they threw in the cost of labor $268+ after the fact... at 8:00 am, I asked repeatedly how much.... never told me labor cost until now 2 hours before picking up my car... $618.79. And the Grand total if I'd did everything on the list below is around $3k plus..... I wish, I was told the labor cost as well to plan to out -of -pocket more realistically. 😔 ijs.

Approved Jobs (4) L1: Brake check, customer feels pulsating while braking. $135.00 Courtesy Inspection $0.00 Front Brake Service with Rotors $457.19 Wash Vehicle (Full) $0.00

Declined Jobs (13) Rotate & Balance 4 Tires $75.00 Replace Wiper Blades - Flex $61.03 Brake Light Bulbs $83.63 Brake Flush $121.59 Cooling System Flush - GM/Chevrolet/Cadillac $155.80 Drain & Fill Transmission Fluid - Universal $369.81 Clean Down Engine and Add Oil Dye $132.95 Spark Plugs $314.39 Fuel Injection Service $201.85 Air Filter $96.15 Cabin Air Filter $84.83 Rear Shocks $640.46 L1: Check engine light is on $135.00 ************** What I Paid ************** Summary of Approved Work Description Amount Total Labor $268.00 Total Parts $305.84 Total Fees $26.60 Subtotal $600.44 Taxes $18.35 Grand Total $618.79

I was just quoted $1150 with tax for parts and labor. That's four brake pads and new rotors just to pass inspection

It seems about fair to me considering they probably aren’t using the cheapest parts available. Shops make money off selling parts (usually I think) and they also don’t want to screw themselves over buying the cheapest garbage that inevitably causes issues and makes them have to do free work to fix it. A 200 dollar difference to get decent parts is pretty normal and that’s really the only inconsistency you’re worried about here. Also, brake jobs are super easy. Watch a Chris fix video on it and you’ll see there’s no way to really mess it up. It’s tough to find a job that pays 150 an hour so I consider that and do it myself when it comes to this sort of easy stuff. You could call a couple other shops and see what they give about a quote, and ask if they can do cheaper parts to work on the price, but I don’t think there would be any significant difference.

Think of it like this, let's assume the vehicle is driven in Texas and it's got five thousand miles. You need to replace rotors and pads on all four wheels. You're able to get all of your bleeder screws out easy everything just slides right apart and there's no rust to deal with, literally it's like taking apart a computer as far as the Fasteners go.

Now let's say that same vehicles in Minnesota and has 20,000 miles on it. Now when you undo one of the bleeder bolts it breaks so you're going to either have to drill and tap it out or replace the caliper, let's say one of your wheel studs is so badly rusted out that the threads are stripped, now you got a hammer that out and press in a new wheel stud. Maybe you've got the rubber lines that have gotten damaged from road debris hitting them, and you've got to deal with replacing some of that. What are the most common things I see is the brake lines being so rusted around fittings that if you do need to replace a caliper you cannot remove the brake line without twisting and half so you've got to replace the entire brake line.

Maybe on a clean brand new car if you could do a complete brake job in about an hour. However odds are there's going to be stuck bolts and plastic trim panels that have to come off and maybe other little things that need to be dealt with which can easily extend that into the two-hour Mark. Plus shops don't bill on best case scenario, they bill on a book time. So the way you make more money in the automotive trade is if a job is billed out at 2 hours and you know how to get it done in one hour then you can double your time and make double your hourly rate for that job.

So if you are a skilled and experienced technician who knows a lot of tricks you're going to be able to make more money than an entry-level guy coming in right out of school because you are able to make more per hour even if both of these technicians are making the same on paper dollar amount per hour

My mechanic charged me 495 for 2 new brakes and rotors with labor included

Honestly, just get new rotors. Most places won't even resurface (at least near me). It's about 500 a pop for front OR back and about 1k for both.

If you're even moderately handy, you can get tools and parts for about 6-700 and diy. Brakes are designed to be easily changed as they are a consumable part.

DIY for like $300 using good rock auto parts

I didn’t even know they still did turning rotors.

Just get new ones.

Do it yourself if you can. But I found a guy my coworkers like and he charged me $500 for pads and resurfacing.

First question - is that for all 4 corners? My experience with my first Outback was that the front lasted about 10,000 miles longer than the rear. $900 is probably ballpark for dealer price for all 4 corners, but with replacement rotors rather than resurfacing them.

Brakes never cost $2900. Either that place was scamming you (seems way too high to be believable, brake replacement costs like $500 even with drum brakes), or something else needed done.

Rockauto.com. Harbor freight. Don’t need much to get the job done besides a bit of time. Nice job. Shops quote based on labor rate and older cars cost more. Probably was brakes, pads, rotors and hoses etc.

Replacing a master cylinder, flushing and bleeding the lines is more complicated, probably not a good place to start learning.... but replacing break pads (and even most rotors) is a very simple process. Anyone can learn to do it if they choose to.

When I was a service consultant at BMW about 15 plus years ago it was just over $3000 for front and rear brakes. That was just pads and rotors

It’s very unlikely that you need any of your calipers replaced let alone all of them unless you’ve been sitting in door height water for the last 6 years. 

Did they give you a reason why the calipers would need replaced? Unless they are damaged for some reason you would just need rotors and pads. Hell some places would surface your rotors and just do pads. This seems excessive.

That’s insane. Gouging. Go to a local mechanic, not a dealer or chain store.

Midas or some other joke of a place repair shop? Chances are you probably dont need calipers. If you are somewhere with rust, you possibly could have an issue with the slider pins. My guess is they are screwing you to make an extra buck

Bruh this is like an hour job and $80 on rockauto

Yeah we just bought front and back brake pads/rotors and it was 930$ tax included. No labour costs cause we did them at home. So sounds pretty average

I remember helping my dad replace pads and rotors as a.kid/teen.

Was not.that hard of a job and could be done in your driveway.

I don't think I'd ever pay 1400 for a job that simple.

Yea that seems fairly typical. Just to give you insight, if you went and purchased those parts yourself the cost of the parts would be about half give or take (rear brakes tend to be a bit more). Now do the job yourself and say bye bye to that labor and toss the used rotors at the very on garbage day and the scrappers will take em.

The mechanic marks everything up so if you want to maintain your vehicle at a mechanic you will pay the price but know its done right (usually).

That's typical now

Brakes are the biggest moneymakers for mechanics

Part markups are not “standard practice” just most places won’t be selling them to you for the same price online. There are also different qualities/sources for parts. Getting them from Honda will be more expensive than buying a third party one from China.

Not sure what standard shop rate is these days - $150 maybe? So looks like 4ish hours total. Seems a bit high - I can do mine in that time and I’m slow as shit. But if they were really rusted it can sometimes be a beast to work with.

You can CSG quotes before proceeding with work. It usually can be quoted over the phone. Call your local Honda dealer and ask what they charge. Call Canadian tire and ask what they charge. Ideally it should be somewhere in the middle of those two. If someone is more expensive than a dealer - go to a dealer. If someone is cheaper than Canadian tire - run.