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Reduce The Potential For Expensive Brake Repairs

You pull your car into the brake shop ready to take advantage of the $99.00 brake special advertised on TV. You think maybe the brakes need replaced because your trick of turning up the radio louder to drown out and ignore the high pitched noise coming from under your car as you drive down the road isn't working. Now, you can feel the vibration of the grind traveling through the body of the car as well as through your own body as you cruise down the road. Today, you decided it might be time to get your brakes repaired.

Hearing that it will take a couple of hours to get to your car, you sign the service ticket authorizing the brake shop to repair the brakes on your car because you are still happy knowing it will only cost $99.00 for the repairs if they find anything wrong. You are even impressed the brake repair shop offered to drop you off at your house to wait for your car to be repaired.

You see it has only been an hour and half when the phone rings and you smile when the caller ID identifies the brake shop as the caller. Answering the phone in a friendly manner, you hear the assistant manager say it will be another two hours to have your car ready. Concern creeps into your thoughts as you say okay while thinking that seems like a long time to have your car brakes repaired.

On the way back, a small alarm goes off in your head when you find out the mechanic who picked you up is actually driving another customer's car to come pick you up. You wonder if they used your car to pick up one of their other customers but you push the thought out of your mind. After all, you are only out $99.00 to get rid of that awful noise interrupting your peace of mind while driving your car.

Back at the brake shop, you smile at the manager and he smiles back at you while handing you the bill at the same time he informs you the repair cost will be $898.00. You think you are hard of hearing until you see the invoice for your self. The amount looks as large as the invoice while your brain stays stuck on the $99.00 special. Your smile went out the window along with your extra money if you are lucky enough to have $800 lying around!

You stammer. "I only owe you $99.00 plus tax."

The manager smiled. "Let me look at the invoice. HmmmmmmmmI'm sorry you didn't read the special closer. That $99.00 you are talking about is per axle and only includes pads or shoes only. In addition to putting new pads on the front and shoes on the rear, your car

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