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At Budget Brakes, lifetime warranty brakes start from $100. What you pay depends on your vehicle and on what the free brake inspection finds: pads only, or pads with rotors, calipers or fluid. You get the price in writing before any work starts, and nothing is done without your yes.
From the Budget Brakes shops · Updated
Pads wear out first. If the rotors are still smooth and thick enough, new pads may be all you need. Rotors that are scored, uneven or worn past the minimum thickness stamped on them need replacing too, and that's the biggest jump in price.
Each axle is its own job. The front brakes do most of the stopping, so they usually wear out first.
Trucks, SUVs and cars with large brakes take bigger, costlier parts than a compact car.
A sticking caliper, a leaking hose or old brake fluid adds to the job. It goes on your written price, and you decide what gets done today.
Pads worn down to the metal grind into the rotors. Coming in at the first squeal, before it turns into grinding, keeps the job smaller.
Every Budget Brakes invoice includes a shop supply charge of 17% of the parts and labor, at least $2.99 and never more than $29.99. On a $100 brake job, that's $17.
There's a special every month, and all sixteen shops honor it, one coupon per visit. See this month's special before you come in.
Book online or come to any of the sixteen shops, Monday to Saturday, 7:30 to 5.
A free six-point inspection: we measure the pads in millimetres and show you, and check the rotors, the fluid and the hardware.
You get the price in writing before anything is touched. If the honest answer is "come back in six months," that's the answer you get.
Say yes, and most brake jobs are done the same day.
Measured, not guessed. New pads start around 12 mm. We start the conversation near 3 mm, and you see the number.
Sixteen shops. One way of doing things.
Quality parts at low prices, an honest look at what your car needs, and a guarantee that travels with you to any Budget Brakes.
