I'm moving to Seattle and wanted to find out if there are any good Land Rover shops in the area rather than the dealer. I will need some brake work done pretty soon on my LR3.

Thanks!

 

Have an indy shop do your brakes the dealer will want over a grand to do it

 

That's not necessarily true. I checked with a couple independent shops and my dealer ended up matching the price. But yes, the initial price from the dealer is like $1300...

 

$1300 hundred dollars to do brakes??? There ought to be a law against that! Anyone willing to pay $1300 dollars for brakes has an empty space between their ears.

 

I had 200 bucks into mine 1300 is almost 6xs that!
What did the dealer come down to?

 

You did it yourself for 200? The parts alone are 3x times that I had priced through Land Rover. 4 rotors, f/r sensors, pads for front and rear? Even roverparts.com is almost twice what you paid for just the parts ($329.95 on sale and then I'd have to pay shipping). The dealer did it OTD for $900 (inc. tax). Porsche, Mercedes and other luxury dealers are all up there in price and sometimes more.

The guys who quote "$99 lifetime brakes"...quoted me +/- $950 (inc. tax) and I checked 3 different companies. I don't have the time, tools or expertise to do it myself so having the dealer price lower than all my other quotes was satisfactory to me.

 

Rotors were fine I reused my sensors and put on new pads. I have done brakes myself but I did not do the ones on my LR3 I had a mechanic do it. You don't have to buy into the new rotors check them you should get 2 sets of pads to a set of rotors. They can reuse the sensors if they are carefull.

 

Well I know for next time. You had the best case scenario and I the worst. My rotors were worn and had seen 44k. I'll be sure to inquire about the sensors next time also! Thanks.