max225 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 26, 2020 4:58 pm
Johnny_P wrote: ↑Wed Aug 26, 2020 1:42 pm
Yearly state inspection. Was overdue apparently, got 2 parking tickets for it
so I took it to a local mom and pop that has been good to me in the past. They've done a few jobs no charge to me
so I figured they wouldn't stiff me.
Maybe its because it's a rather expensive performance type car as opposed to the visibly beat as fuck cmax, but they stated the pads are below life as are the rotors and they need to be replaced. Which I have no way of actually verifying or knowing. The pads I could see an argument for I suppose, because all my driving is stop and go, very little cruising. But the rotors don't make any sense. No car burns through rotors in 18k miles.
The only other car I could think of is a GT-R they have notorious 30k $5k brake jobs. I thought I heard of STI brakes being pretty expensive as well. Especially on the later models with the even bigger rotors, but i think those were 18+ models.
That said...18k I don't believe they are that fucked. Car was never tracked and designed with tracking in mind. That will kill a years worth of brakes in a session, they seem to last a bit for those guys. City derping can't possibly be this hard. No way.
Right so I paid the $400 ish for them to throw away $1200 worth of perfectly fine OEM parts and put on $80 worth of aftermarket chinese bullshit. Confirmed the work did get done, it has new front rotors and pads. No clue what they are "oh we use good parts, no junk." OEM rotors had black hats, these are uncoated.... so they're probably $30 shit rotors. Looked up OEM parts, they're about $400 each for the rotors... so, maybe at least the rotors are a whatever type item being aftermarket. As long as the internal venting is the same. Pads... Brembo pads can be bought outside the dealership, but these are probably "Wagner" or some shit. They're supposed to have shims as they're waxables, no clue if they have them.
I'm so mad at myself right now. Of course they're closed, I'm going to call back and Karen them tomorrow. Of course they'll just tell me to fuck off. Like what am I going to ask them to do besides give me my old parts back.... which they'll probably just hang up on me.
This is 100% my fault for not telling them to take it off the lift and saying I'm going elsewhere. I felt backed into a corner because it was overdue and I couldn't find anywhere else to do the inspection quickly. Drove it home and the brake pedal was spongy with no bite.
My life is just one gigantic failure right now