I've been having some trouble with brakes lately. I just brought it into Cole today and they replaced the rotted out brake lines that were leaking, but he looked over all 4 brakes and said they looked fine to him and looked pretty new. The previous owner did a full (calipers, rotors, pads) brake job about 18,000 miles/14 months ago, so I don't know how they could go bad so easily.

Anyways, the rear passenger side brakes start to smell really bad and they heat up like crazy...they was actually smoke pouring from them the other day. I figured the caliper was seized up and needed to be replaced, but they insist at Cole that my brakes are fine. I'm going to take it somewhere else, but I'm already ****ed about paying $209 for the brake line replacement and thinking I'd had everything fixed. I'm a poor 19 year old and the $329 I was quoted for a rear brake job would make me broke for quite awhile, so I'm wondering if there's other ways around it, or if my problem is something completely different.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

 

Those prices seem pretty outrageous. A full set of stainless steel brake lines run ~$100 and I doubt your mechanic installed them so they probly used stock ones which are $60...which leaves $140 for labor. $329 for a rear brake job again is too much. A pair of rebuilt calipers are $120 from autozone, add $30 for some decent pads and you're talking $180 for labor. Buy a Chilton's manual, and do it yourself.

 

you have a SE or a GXE?

 

It's an SE.

 

thats alot of money for brakes..if ur rear caliper is frozen the ull need to replace it along w/ the pads and rotors. a member here sells parts also http://internetautomart.com/.its time to read up the manual and have a session w/ ur car.how exp are u in brakes?