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Everyone knows that they need brakes and are easy targets for unscrupulous shops.
Many shops also don't know if they are gonna see the customer again so they want to make the sell instead of another shop making the profit at a later date.
I have had so many customer coming in telling me that "another shop said I needed brakes". When I look at the pads it is more than 50% left of the material and if the customer doesn't have any problems like noise or vibrations I just let them drive the car and hope they will be back again later on when they really need them.
Granted, it is a chance that they forget (drivers tend to do that) and are far away from me when the brakes are gone so I might loose that job to another more conveniant shop, but that's ok, at least I gave them the choice.
Anders
posted by 66.229.13...
SWEDECAR
Posts in this Thread:
- Opinion:Replace rotors when replacing brake pads?, Bernie , Fri, 14 May 2004 20:01:31
- On greenstuff, Bevan, Mon, 17 May 2004 09:47:15
- New pads, old rotors, no problems here...., Mike Lynch , Sat, 15 May 2004 16:30:02
- Re: Opinion:Replace rotors when replacing brake pads?, Saabtech2, Sat, 15 May 2004 14:32:42
- sounds like someone has a boat payment due, Rick D., Sat, 15 May 2004 08:58:57
- Re: Opinion:Replace rotors when replacing brake pads?, Jason 5W-40, Sat, 15 May 2004 01:20:50
- Re: Opinion:Replace rotors when replacing brake pads?, Alan Kirby, Fri, 14 May 2004 23:01:12
- Re: Opinion:Replace rotors when replacing brake pads?, SWEDECAR , Fri, 14 May 2004 22:18:32
- Re: Opinion:Replace rotors when replacing brake pads?, Stephen Goldberger, Fri, 14 May 2004 20:39:45
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