Inexpensive brake job...!
01-29-2006, 12:34 AM
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Inexpensive brake job...!
FYI - Auto Zone sells W203 lifetime warranteed front brake pads for $24.99 and rotors for $39.99 each.
I know this will draw fire from some, but let me say: I don't give a crap. I am simply providing information, not making recommendations.
I know this will draw fire from some, but let me say: I don't give a crap. I am simply providing information, not making recommendations.
01-29-2006, 01:27 AM
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Originally Posted by RedC230K
FYI - Auto Zone sells W203 lifetime warranteed front brake pads for $24.99 and rotors for $39.99 each.
I know this will draw fire from some, but let me say: I don't give a crap. I am simply providing information, not making recommendations.
I know this will draw fire from some, but let me say: I don't give a crap. I am simply providing information, not making recommendations.
01-29-2006, 02:48 AM
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Originally Posted by c230K415
lifetime warantee...hmmmm.....i do like them auto zone commercials too! :p
Besides that, total time for the job was under an hour! All you need is a 14mm socket, a C-clamp, and the stuff that's already in your trunk!
01-29-2006, 10:41 AM
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01-29-2006, 02:43 PM
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Originally Posted by RedW203
did you notice a loss in braking performance? if not i'm in 
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01-30-2006, 10:25 PM
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I purchased lifetime warranty pads from Napa before and hated them on my W201, just didn't have the smooth feel the factory pads had and didn't seem to stop as well. On the Napa pads, the warranty kicks in when you bring them back the pads with less than 1/16th" of pad left, something that's scary to do because your inside pads wears out first, so if you check your brakes like me by looking at the outside pad and wait for that to get to 1/16" then the inside pad may already be metal to metal.
Did the pads have the hole for sensor?
Did the pads have the hole for sensor?
01-30-2006, 10:55 PM
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I don't work there, so you'd just have to call them or check online. I didn't buy rotors, so I dunno.
Buell - yep, they have a cutout
Buell - yep, they have a cutout
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RedC230K:
I am looking 2 replace the front pads on my C320. I was curious about the pads you got from Autozone. Were those DURALAST ALBANY Brake Pads? Also, do you remember the grease they recommended.
Thanks.
I am looking 2 replace the front pads on my C320. I was curious about the pads you got from Autozone. Were those DURALAST ALBANY Brake Pads? Also, do you remember the grease they recommended.
Thanks.
06-29-2006, 03:31 PM
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RedC230K:
I am looking 2 replace the front pads on my C320. I was curious about the pads you got from Autozone. Were those DURALAST ALBANY Brake Pads? Also, do you remember the grease they recommended.
Thanks.
I am looking 2 replace the front pads on my C320. I was curious about the pads you got from Autozone. Were those DURALAST ALBANY Brake Pads? Also, do you remember the grease they recommended.
Thanks.
06-29-2006, 05:32 PM
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I got a quote from the dealer before I bought the car.
To replace the front, rear, pads, and rotors, on a 2005 C230 Sport with the 13.6 inch brakes up front will cost around $1500 with labor.
They're expensive brakes. I don't know how some people go through them in only 25k miles. Since the front brake surfaces have such a large surface area.
I didn't know that drilled rotors could be resurfaced. I thought they couldn't.
To replace the front, rear, pads, and rotors, on a 2005 C230 Sport with the 13.6 inch brakes up front will cost around $1500 with labor.
They're expensive brakes. I don't know how some people go through them in only 25k miles. Since the front brake surfaces have such a large surface area.
I didn't know that drilled rotors could be resurfaced. I thought they couldn't.
06-29-2006, 06:12 PM
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Midnight Blue 2004.5 C230 Kompressor Sport Sedan. 2002 w210 E320, 2009 w211 E350 Sport
Originally Posted by patrick_y
I got a quote from the dealer before I bought the car.
To replace the front, rear, pads, and rotors, on a 2005 C230 Sport with the 13.6 inch brakes up front will cost around $1500 with labor.
They're expensive brakes. I don't know how some people go through them in only 25k miles. Since the front brake surfaces have such a large surface area.
I didn't know that drilled rotors could be resurfaced. I thought they couldn't.
To replace the front, rear, pads, and rotors, on a 2005 C230 Sport with the 13.6 inch brakes up front will cost around $1500 with labor.
They're expensive brakes. I don't know how some people go through them in only 25k miles. Since the front brake surfaces have such a large surface area.
I didn't know that drilled rotors could be resurfaced. I thought they couldn't.
06-29-2006, 07:15 PM
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Originally Posted by RedC230K
FYI - Auto Zone sells W203 lifetime warranteed front brake pads for $24.99 and rotors for $39.99 each.
I know this will draw fire from some, but let me say: I don't give a crap. I am simply providing information, not making recommendations.
I know this will draw fire from some, but let me say: I don't give a crap. I am simply providing information, not making recommendations.
..wierd.
I wonder if the rotors warp easy. ?
Carquest has brake rotors for late model civic's for about $15 a piece wich is only .86 cents more than resurfacing them..
