I sharted and laughed at the same time!

[2 Coupes]

Its true. Today when I brought my car in to check on a possibly blown speaker and I thought the car was pulling to the left. I get a call a few hours later and the dealer tells me the following; The speaker is not blown I just need a new head unit, which is covered by the factory warranty good!! Then he proceeds to tell me I need four new tires at 500 a piece. Also I would be needing a (Bremo) brake job pretty soon. To top it off he tells me I need to replace a few belts at 160 a piece, I can't remember them all because I was too busy lifting my jaw up off the floor. The final tally of all the damage was roughly $5300. I am telling you right now I am still in school working part time, I really don't think I can afford that at this time. Yes I know I purchased a luxury car and things are expensive, but I did not think I would be needing to fork over this much money this soon in the ownership of the car (purchased used in September with 28,000 mi). Here at school I have developed a pretty good relationship with a local mechanic and I called him today and asked if he could give me a rough estimate but he said it would be better if he could see the car on a lift. I think he could do a great job with my brakes and the belts that I need. Also a girl I work with at the bank has a father that works at a dealership and she thinks she can get me a really good deal on tires at price which is nice. So have any of your guys had this experience? Has anyone been able to do the bremo work themselves? What type of knowledge is needed to beable to tackle a job like the bremos? Thanks guys and gals.

Regards, Bryan

[slobo7x]

Well there is no such thing as $500 a piece tire for these cars, REALLY doubt it. I paid $275 per tire for 19", i don't know if you have 19's or not.

Brembo work is just replacing brake pads and bleeding, you friend mechanic can do this for you for some beer and pizza

You made a mistake by going to the dealer, let them replace the bose headunit and have your friend do the belts and brakes, it isn't difficult even if you are not mechanic. it should be a piece of cake for him.

Good luck,and don't ever go to the dealer to do tires!

[champagneG35]

Sorry for laughing, but my dealership tried to ream me a new one too not quite that badly though price wise. There's a thread in here somewhere...ahh here it is ~~~> Question about Dealership (or salesperson) fraud

It's a good read

P.S. If you go to do those brembo pads yourself which isn't that hard in itself, I'd make sure you have a breaker bar and about a 4-6ft metal tube you can slide over the end of it to break those caliper bolts lose. I tried just using the breaker bar alone and all I did was move the suspenstion up and down and bruise my shoulder against the fender well. Note it was still semi hard with that long extension but doable...or option B use an air wrench (it was late at night so that option was out for me) on them and avoid the manual headache.

[smockers83]

Ohh OSU people....did you come to Ann Arbor and get that quote? That could be why.

[joe603]

$500 per tire

You were correct to bring it to the dealer for the stereo, and now you have a new head deck! As others have stated, do the other maintenance yourself. Belts are easy!! Brakes are a pain, but not hard.

The tires can be done for under 1k. Check these guys out: http://www.tiredeals4less.com/index.cfm

I wouldn't even buy my parts from that dealer!! These guys will be able to help you: http://www.g35parts.com/9083/osc/index.php

[zozoka1212]

I am with this guys 500 /tire is Tell them to fix the headunit and screw themself.

It looks like the previous owner did not change much on the car.

zozo

[fatire_mtb]

Did they also tell you that you need a refresher on the undercoating and rust-proofing?

Sounds like a less than scrupulous dealer.

[04G356MT]

Why do you need a breaker bar for Brembos??? all you have to do is pull the retaining pins on the top and push the two metal pins out the back side then the pads just slide out... you never have to remove the caliper of the disc...

Edit: uploaded a diagram to make things MUCH easier...



8 = Retainer pins just pull these straight out first.9 = rods holding the pads in pull these out after you pull 8 and the pads will just come out the top, they may be hard to remove due to brake dust build up so just give it a little umph

welp that was my good deed for the day and i feel good about myself, hope it is helpful and not too late, but let me know and i can walk you through it if all else fails...
Modified by 04G356MT at 1:42 PM 12/14/2007

[gwoods]

Those tires better come with a BJ from the cutie at the front desk!

That is robbery!

Decided what you want from your tires,

ComfortLongevityHandleing

Now pick 2 cause you can't have all three in any tire. Get a set of Toyo or Kumho tires and replace them evey 20k at $500 for 4 tires mounted balanced and out the door.

Jeff