Why You Need New Brake Rotors When You Change Brake Pads
No, your mechanic is not trying to cheat you. Here’s why professional shops of all sizes now include new rotors with a “brake job.”
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New brakes for daily drivers are never a fun maintenance or repair. The best one can hope for is that the car will stop just like it did before the brakes were worn out. In the past, the typical way to do a “brake job” on a vehicle with disc brakes was to machine the old rotors flat as part of the job. The result of this is that your bill would include labor and pads. If you have recently had a mechanic do a brake job on your car, crossover, or truck, you may be surprised to see that new rotors (discs) were included. No, you were not taken advantage of. In fact, quite the opposite.