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Originally Posted by MetroMPG

Picked up my new pads & rotors today. $100

Chose premium pads only because several people told me they had bad experiences with economy pads (wearing early, noise, brake dust). The parts counter guy wasn't helpful in determining the difference between the premium, mid-grade & economy choices. "Might even be the same ones in different boxes." Made in Italy.

Oh well. Somewhere a marketing hack is smiling.

Chose the economy rotors. $2 more than machining the factory discs (which I'll keep and have machined if these new ones turn out to be worse in any way). Made in China.

Should have a chance to install everything, grease the caliper sliders, and bleed/replace the old brake fluid on Sunday.

I always get stuff with lifetime warranties, regardless of supposed quality issues.

I've been warned against it how ever many times, but I've never had a problem with any of it, and even if I did have a problem, I'd just take it back for the warranty. LOL.

I even get lifetime warranties on my brakes and related parts. I've not had to pay for more than one set of brakes on any car that I've owned/worked on.

One of those ways that I make an extra buck on return work - get the lifetime warranty the first time, then when they come back, it's the same price for them, but I get the parts free.