Originally Posted By: Hokiefyd
Originally Posted By: Falken
Pads, Rotors, service, Tires and Labor?
450$?
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Note that it was just rear tires. Pads and rotors at $133 plus what is likely an hour of labor at around $60 or 70 puts the brake work at about $200.
So that's another $250 for two tires mounted and installed, which is average-to-high in my opinion. I don't know what the OP paid for the tires, but they sell for about $75-90 each on Tire Rack in sizes that might be on the OP's Accord. They're decent tires, probably no better than average in any one area. But decent tires.
The rotors are probably standard white-box rotors that you'd get at Advance or Pep Boys, and at $39.99 for a set of pads, are probably the house-brand ceramic pads. For instance, Advance's Wearever Gold ceramic pads are $35.99 for the front set. Other house brands will be similar (AutoZone, Pep Boys, etc). Note that the OES pads (06450-SDA-A10) list at a Honda dealer for $190 for the set, so it's very unlikely that they used true OES parts.
There's probably tax factored into the OPs $450 price tax? Not sure what the rate is in FL but 6% or 7% tax is like $420/$425 pre-tax, so the tires were a probably bit cheaper than $250. $225 even seems high but we'd really need the full breakdown, $60 to $70 for labor would be cheap here, more like $80 to $90 by me.
Agree on the pads and rotors. I'm assuming where they are buying the house brand from they are probably getting a discount versus what we're seeing online so there is some markup in the $39.99 already.
Originally Posted By: Falken
Pads, Rotors, service, Tires and Labor?
450$?
They like you.
Note that it was just rear tires. Pads and rotors at $133 plus what is likely an hour of labor at around $60 or 70 puts the brake work at about $200.
So that's another $250 for two tires mounted and installed, which is average-to-high in my opinion. I don't know what the OP paid for the tires, but they sell for about $75-90 each on Tire Rack in sizes that might be on the OP's Accord. They're decent tires, probably no better than average in any one area. But decent tires.
The rotors are probably standard white-box rotors that you'd get at Advance or Pep Boys, and at $39.99 for a set of pads, are probably the house-brand ceramic pads. For instance, Advance's Wearever Gold ceramic pads are $35.99 for the front set. Other house brands will be similar (AutoZone, Pep Boys, etc). Note that the OES pads (06450-SDA-A10) list at a Honda dealer for $190 for the set, so it's very unlikely that they used true OES parts.
There's probably tax factored into the OPs $450 price tax? Not sure what the rate is in FL but 6% or 7% tax is like $420/$425 pre-tax, so the tires were a probably bit cheaper than $250. $225 even seems high but we'd really need the full breakdown, $60 to $70 for labor would be cheap here, more like $80 to $90 by me.
Agree on the pads and rotors. I'm assuming where they are buying the house brand from they are probably getting a discount versus what we're seeing online so there is some markup in the $39.99 already.