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Best bang for buck on rotors and pads?
It's brake service time. I plan to put rebuilt calipers on with new pads
and new rotors. I am leaning towards OEM on both but am thinking about Hawk pads. What'cha running for brakes, and what did the rotors and pads cost? Also, if anyone has a set of either rotors and/or pads gathering dust, I have a lot of parts for trade. Long shot, but who knows. The car is a 1991 model but has the larger brakes from a 1996 Miata installed. Thanks! Pat |
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Best bang for buck on rotors and pads?
In article >, pws >
wrote: > What'cha running for brakes, and what did the rotors and pads cost? Mazda OEM pads, from Finish Line Performance (about $60 for both axles). At 142k miles, I'm still on my original rotors, but NAPA rotors are supposed to be worthy at $15 per. -- Lanny Chambers St. Louis, MO '94C |
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Best bang for buck on rotors and pads?
Lanny Chambers wrote:
> Mazda OEM pads, from Finish Line Performance (about $60 for both axles). > At 142k miles, I'm still on my original rotors, but NAPA rotors are > supposed to be worthy at $15 per. I'll probably go with the OEM pads and NAPA rotors. I might replace the fronts only for now, the rears look great and there is pad material for maybe 15K more miles. The front rotors look like they could stand to be turned or replaced. I figure that I may as well get new ones though they have never been turned so I might do that instead if the savings in cost is enough. It has been about 18 years since I have had rotors turned on any car. Thanks, time to call Finishline, it has been a while, I think that I even forgot their phone number. ;-) Pat |
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Best bang for buck on rotors and pads?
Lanny Chambers wrote:
> Mazda OEM pads, from Finish Line Performance (about $60 for both axles). > At 142k miles, I'm still on my original rotors, but NAPA rotors are > supposed to be worthy at $15 per. I figured that rebuilding the calipers would be a good idea since they are about to hit 100K miles and 13 years of age. Have you had your's rebuilt? I am wondering if I would just be fixing something that was not broken, but I like the idea of a completely fresh brake system and I had a bad experience once with a sticky caliper on my Z-car, but the seals on it were in really bad shape and about 20 years old. Open the calipers up and inspect them? Just rebuild them? Don't worry about it until there is a noticeable problem? Oh yeah, I have an extra set of calipers that can be sent off for rebuilds with no downtime while waiting for them to be worked on. Thanks again, Pat |
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Best bang for buck on rotors and pads?
pws > wrote:
> I figured that rebuilding the calipers would be a good idea since > they are about to hit 100K miles and 13 years of age. At the shop, we used a mobile brake service, they'd bring loaded calipers and turn rotors, all they need is an extension cord to run the brake lathe. Check and see if there's anyone in your area that does that, for us it was cheaper than having our mechanics turn rotors, rebuild calipers and install pads. -- XS11E, Killing all posts from Google Groups The Usenet Improvement Project: http://improve-usenet.org |
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Best bang for buck on rotors and pads?
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wrote: > I figured that rebuilding the calipers would be a good idea since they > are about to hit 100K miles and 13 years of age. > > Have you had your's rebuilt? Nope. My car's all original, except pads, battery, radiator, maintenance items, and the stuff I've upgraded. Still has the original clutch and top. -- Lanny Chambers St. Louis, MO '94C |
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Best bang for buck on rotors and pads?
XS11E wrote:
> pws > wrote: > >> I figured that rebuilding the calipers would be a good idea since >> they are about to hit 100K miles and 13 years of age. > > At the shop, we used a mobile brake service, they'd bring loaded > calipers and turn rotors, all they need is an extension cord to run the > brake lathe. > > Check and see if there's anyone in your area that does that, for us it > was cheaper than having our mechanics turn rotors, rebuild calipers and > install pads. Thanks, I plan on doing my own labor with the rotors/calipers/pads swap-out, but I will look into a set of loaded rebuilds and see what the cost is compared to dropping my spares off plus buying pads. I wonder if it is possible to get them loaded with OEM pads, time to make some calls. I figure that I will just replace the rotors at $15.00 apiece. Any idea what a typical cost is for rebuilding 4 calipers? Thanks again, Pat |
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Best bang for buck on rotors and pads?
Lanny Chambers wrote:
> Nope. My car's all original, except pads, battery, radiator, maintenance > items, and the stuff I've upgraded. Still has the original clutch and > top. Are you comfortable with your brake calipers at 14 to 15 years of age and 142,000 miles? How many years and how many miles would you go before you started thinking about rebuilding them, or would you wait until they showed signs of a problem even if it was 25 years and 250,000 miles? Also, didn't your car hit 140,000 miles like 3 years ago? Don't you drive that thing anymore? ;-) Pat |
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Best bang for buck on rotors and pads?
In article >, pws >
wrote: > How many years and how many miles would you go before you started > thinking about rebuilding them, or would you wait until they showed > signs of a problem even if it was 25 years and 250,000 miles? If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Calipers are unlikely to fail catastrophically with no warning. > Also, didn't your car hit 140,000 miles like 3 years ago? Don't you > drive that thing anymore? ;-) Guilty as charged, Pat. When we got the 3, the Miata was retired from road trip duty. As I type this, the Miata hasn't been out of the garage for a month. The top hasn't been up since May 2007. -- Lanny Chambers St. Louis, MO '94C |
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Best bang for buck on rotors and pads?
pws > wrote:
> XS11E wrote: >> At the shop, we used a mobile brake service, they'd bring loaded >> calipers and turn rotors, all they need is an extension cord to >> run the brake lathe. >> >> Check and see if there's anyone in your area that does that, for >> us it was cheaper than having our mechanics turn rotors, rebuild >> calipers and install pads. > > Thanks, I plan on doing my own labor with the rotors/calipers/pads > swap-out, but I will look into a set of loaded rebuilds and see > what the cost is compared to dropping my spares off plus buying > pads. > > I wonder if it is possible to get them loaded with OEM pads, time > to make some calls. Can't hurt to ask. The mobile service we used used brand name stuff but not OEM. > I figure that I will just replace the rotors at $15.00 apiece. Any > idea what a typical cost is for rebuilding 4 calipers? Are you asking in dollars, quarts of blood, new swear words learned, what? If you do it yourself it's just the cost of the seals unless you find a problem such as corrosion in one or more calipers, then it can get costly because you'll have to take them to a shop or exchange them or get new ones. The possibility of finding calipers that can't be rebuilt is one reason to consider swapping for rebuilts (if they're available.) That possibility increases with the number of years you haven't flushed the system.... -- XS11E, Killing all posts from Google Groups The Usenet Improvement Project: http://improve-usenet.org |
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