How often do you need to change brake pads or rotors on a car?
If you insist on getting your brake work done by a garage, I want to warn you of one scam in particular. Some places might try to sell you a “lifetime brake job”, meaning that, if you let them replace EVERY component of your brake system, for the standard cost, then pay an additional fee on top of that, they will warrantee the whole system for as long as you own the car. That’s free diagnostics, free pads, free calipers, free rotors, free brake lines, free brake fluid, even free labor, for as long as you own the car. Sounds like a great deal, even at $1000. But it’s a scam! Firestone had a “lifetime alignment” deal, and my wife signed up for it. But every time she brought the car in for service on that ‘”lifetime alignment” deal, they managed to find something else wrong that was not covered by the deal, but was intimately related to the alignment system so that (and here’s where the “state law” comes in again) they couldn’t do anything to the alignment unless they fixed this other thi
