slavenomore
TB Legend
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So...new thread on the racket.
Needed some pads on the front and rear discs.
Latest racket I'm so happy to have come across.
Rear ones were fine although they do have 2 different sized rotors for the rear of the same car...making buying the right ones more difficult.
But the real racket is in the front
On this car they make one pad with the jigsaw puzzle cut nubs on the end to slide into the caliper bracket up to the rotor.
So it took me 1 return at NAPA and 2 at AutoZone and a trip to a dealer to explain the problem. The car is a little over 10 years old. The dealer parts guy matched up pics and diagrams...and told me the news. He said he sees the problem...there are no longer any pads with tabs cut to fit the bracket grooves. He pulled up all the retail auto store brands and his own..and zoomed at the tab cuts.
The aftermarket parts are cut larger than the original tabs that slide in with a very slightly different angle.
The only way to make them fit would be to grind off the tabs to make them fit...risking spending another $40 if you wreck one of the 8 tabs in the 4-pack of pads.
But the real racket lies in the real solution to the scam.
Since they know that you can always just file or Dremmel a little rust which gets in the grooved of the bracket which the pads slide in ..and they know that you'll probably never need to replace the caliper bracket......they have found a way to MAKE you NEED to buy new caliper brackets.
New caliper brackets MUST be purchased if you want to replace to pads. Because there are absolutely no pads with tabs that are made anymore, which will fit into the slots of the stock caliper brackets.
So a $40 job for the front pads automatically becomes a $150-$200 job.
When things were not all a money racket shakedown ...the job would have costed me $45 for the front and rear...because NAPA had a sale.
But since you must replace the brackets along with the pads.....it's looking like the front and rear will become $150.
....and I'll still need to see IF the tabs are cut to fit the aftermarket caliper brackets.
That remains to be seen for nobody has the new brackets in stock ..I have to order them to even find out. .....and it still remains to be seen if the holes for the calipers will line up properly with the new brackets..$40 might turn into $300.
Engineers ..not exactly my favorite people.
Overpaid ....no doubt about that from my viewpoint.
Needed some pads on the front and rear discs.
Latest racket I'm so happy to have come across.
Rear ones were fine although they do have 2 different sized rotors for the rear of the same car...making buying the right ones more difficult.
But the real racket is in the front
On this car they make one pad with the jigsaw puzzle cut nubs on the end to slide into the caliper bracket up to the rotor.
So it took me 1 return at NAPA and 2 at AutoZone and a trip to a dealer to explain the problem. The car is a little over 10 years old. The dealer parts guy matched up pics and diagrams...and told me the news. He said he sees the problem...there are no longer any pads with tabs cut to fit the bracket grooves. He pulled up all the retail auto store brands and his own..and zoomed at the tab cuts.
The aftermarket parts are cut larger than the original tabs that slide in with a very slightly different angle.
The only way to make them fit would be to grind off the tabs to make them fit...risking spending another $40 if you wreck one of the 8 tabs in the 4-pack of pads.
But the real racket lies in the real solution to the scam.
Since they know that you can always just file or Dremmel a little rust which gets in the grooved of the bracket which the pads slide in ..and they know that you'll probably never need to replace the caliper bracket......they have found a way to MAKE you NEED to buy new caliper brackets.
New caliper brackets MUST be purchased if you want to replace to pads. Because there are absolutely no pads with tabs that are made anymore, which will fit into the slots of the stock caliper brackets.
So a $40 job for the front pads automatically becomes a $150-$200 job.
When things were not all a money racket shakedown ...the job would have costed me $45 for the front and rear...because NAPA had a sale.
But since you must replace the brackets along with the pads.....it's looking like the front and rear will become $150.
....and I'll still need to see IF the tabs are cut to fit the aftermarket caliper brackets.
That remains to be seen for nobody has the new brackets in stock ..I have to order them to even find out. .....and it still remains to be seen if the holes for the calipers will line up properly with the new brackets..$40 might turn into $300.
Engineers ..not exactly my favorite people.
Overpaid ....no doubt about that from my viewpoint.
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