How much should it cost for a garage to fit new brakes?

Grumpy_chap

fred246 said:

I never understand main dealers. Why do they always have so many people sat around at desks doing nothing. I always ring the bell at the parts desk and nobody comes out. And all the people sat at their desks ignore me.

How would you know what happens at a main dealers, given how frequently you tell us on here that you never go near a garage of any kind, let alone a main dealer with their rip-off prices?

Don't get me wrong, I have found main dealers to be the most unhelpful people in the world - I just don't know how you know that.

NottinghamKnight

the main dealers probably have Fred on ignore as well.

Dr_Crypto

Main dealers are for those who can afford it. For everyone else there’s, well, a variety of options. 

JustAnotherSaver

It's funny how people on the outside always think they know and why doesn't Joe Bloggs do this because it'll only take that long and they could do XYZ.

Then the outsider may get a job on the inside, for arguments sake, and realise how things are run and then gets Pd off when outsiders say why doesn't that guy do this, it'll only take that long and they should be doing XYZ.

dipsomaniac

fred246 said:

I never understand main dealers. Why do they always have so many people sat around at desks doing nothing. I always ring the bell at the parts desk and nobody comes out. And all the people sat at their desks ignore me.

Don't get me started on the parts dept wearing suits........

seatbeltnoob

if youre buying a decent brand thats trusted to make OE spec stuff then the garage will be BSing you if there is a brake failure. brakes are just solid metal blocks, no moving parts. any failure/problem will be 100% install issue.

Now if you buy some brakes from ebay by some company called wingdao - yeach chances are the brakes are crap.

Garages don't like you buying parts because they charge you list price when they get it trade price and then make a margin on parts too. so they try to scare you with "if it fails we're not liable" tactic.

AdrianC

seatbeltnoob said:

brakes are just solid metal blocks, no moving parts. any failure/problem will be 100% install issue.

No, not a bit of it.
Discs/drums are "solid metal", yes. But they may be warped or cracked. There may be an inclusion in the casting that causes premature failure. They may be machined out of tolerance.
Pads/shoes certainly aren't "solid metal" - they're friction material bonded to a metal backing. Maybe that bonding fails. Maybe the backing is out of tolerance. Maybe there's a problem in the friction material.
Calipers/cylinders and handbrake cables certainly aren't "solid metal" - and they certainly do have moving parts.