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What's your opinion on 400$ on the labor for all four corners. Pads, rotors and fluid flush (bleed brakes). I'm supplying the rotors and pads. This is a quote from

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Old 10-23-2012, 07:21 AM   #1 (permalink)
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What's your opinion on 400$ on the labor for all four corners. Pads, rotors and fluid flush (bleed brakes). I'm supplying the rotors and pads. This is a quote from Nissan. Please comment on price, not whether I should do the work on my own.
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If it's from Nissan then it sounds about right. The fluid isn't cheap and either is their shop rate.
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too bad your in Florida, Id do it for half
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Sounds about right. Probably four hours of labor plus fluid.
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if you have tools it would be soo much cheaper for you to buy a motive brake bleader and just d.i.y. normally shop labor is about 110 an hr. so it sounds like a good price. what setup did you go with?
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Get GTR fluid if you're going to do it at the dealer... Personally, I wouldn't go to the dealer for this install, I'm sure a local shop can do it for less and do the same quality job if not better
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what i meant was pads and rotors. Im thinkin when I do go to replace my pads that im goin to do the rotors too. But I am thinking of buyin the kit from z1motorsports.com. They have a pad/rotor/ss line kit for 578. Im just not sure what pads I would want to get. Last time around I had warped rotors from baer using ceramic pads, and I broke the rotors in as manufacturer specs called for.
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I think that kit from Z1 comes with the fluid too....
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price sounds right for the work. granted diy'ers say its just simple bolt on work... but time is the issue. sometimes its just worth it to pay a fair price and let someone else deal with the mess and sweat

i'd check to see if a local speed shop can do it though. i'm not too conifdent with many dealership techs. just my personal .02 ... i'm sure there are a bunch of great techs working at dealerships, but the sad case is, most aren't or just don't give too much attention to specialized cars like ours.
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What's your opinion on 400$ on the labor for all four corners. Pads, rotors and fluid flush (bleed brakes). I'm supplying the rotors and pads. This is a quote from Nissan. Please comment on price, not whether I should do the work on my own.
Labor on all 4 brakes is $250 to $300. So its high by a lot.

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