How would you like a $116,000 brake change?
06-20-2008, 03:59 PM
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How would you like a $116,000 brake change?
Then purchase a new Mercedes SLR. I work in the parts department and had some free time so I looked up some parts for the halo car. Plus I got new pads and rotors for my 04 6mt last weekend, that also triggered the musing.
Here's the breakdown:
TWO FRONT BRAKE ROTORS: $23,540.00 x2
TWO FRONT GOLD CALIPERS: $3,190.00 x2
FRONT PADS: $2690.00
FRONT BRAKE PAD WEAR SENSORS: $20.79 x2
TWO REAR BRAKE ROTORS: $21,790.00 x2
TWO REAR GOLD CALIPERS: $2,300.00 x2
REAR PADS: $1,500.00
PARKING BRAKE LINERS: $226.98
Of course, this would be a seven hour job at a Mercedes-Benz shop rate of 130.00 an hour for a total of $910.00.
Add Washington State tax at 8.9 per dollar ($9548.87) and you have a bill of:
$116,557. 43
Will that be cash or charge?
Here's the breakdown:
TWO FRONT BRAKE ROTORS: $23,540.00 x2
TWO FRONT GOLD CALIPERS: $3,190.00 x2
FRONT PADS: $2690.00
FRONT BRAKE PAD WEAR SENSORS: $20.79 x2
TWO REAR BRAKE ROTORS: $21,790.00 x2
TWO REAR GOLD CALIPERS: $2,300.00 x2
REAR PADS: $1,500.00
PARKING BRAKE LINERS: $226.98
Of course, this would be a seven hour job at a Mercedes-Benz shop rate of 130.00 an hour for a total of $910.00.
Add Washington State tax at 8.9 per dollar ($9548.87) and you have a bill of:
$116,557. 43
Will that be cash or charge?
06-20-2008, 05:12 PM
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Man that sucks.
06-20-2008, 06:13 PM
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Originally Posted by 2000TaffetaTL
Another reason you'd be better off to purchase a real super-car, you still have the insane maintainance fee's but you have a sick car compared to the SLR
cause the last time I checked, when the SLR debuted, they put it up against the Ford GT and Carrera GT over and over in every car mag that I saw.
Pretty legit to me
06-20-2008, 07:52 PM
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1 Question, why are you replacing the calipers for a brake job?
06-20-2008, 08:15 PM
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Originally Posted by tsxgoogs
That money means nothing to the people that own these types of cars, its all relative
116k is nearly a 1/3 of the cost of the whole car.
06-21-2008, 12:45 AM
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Originally Posted by LotusTracker
116k is nearly a 1/3 of the cost of the whole car.
$10k or something like that I could buy.
06-21-2008, 02:06 AM
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I was thinking this over...$116,557. 43?
You have a choice of SO MANY NICE BRAND NEW cars you for that price, and still have change left over to put a pretty penny into mods!
You might as well just drive the SLR until the brakes wear down, sell the SLR, and buy another car!
You have a choice of SO MANY NICE BRAND NEW cars you for that price, and still have change left over to put a pretty penny into mods!
You might as well just drive the SLR until the brakes wear down, sell the SLR, and buy another car!
06-21-2008, 03:04 AM
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Originally Posted by Time For Sleeep
are you mixing the SLR up with the regular SL or even an AMG SL?
cause the last time I checked, when the SLR debuted, they put it up against the Ford GT and Carrera GT over and over in every car mag that I saw.
Pretty legit to me
cause the last time I checked, when the SLR debuted, they put it up against the Ford GT and Carrera GT over and over in every car mag that I saw.
Pretty legit to me
06-21-2008, 11:41 AM
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Originally Posted by CLpower
the rotors are suppose to be a million mile rotors. Why is he replacing?
He was just pricing it out for fun but the only legit charges are the pads, $4 grand. So this should say "How would you like a $4,000 brake change"
06-23-2008, 07:59 PM
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just pricing it out, there was no actual customer that came in to do it. obviously you don't change the calipers out on a brake job, just pricing out the full meal deal. the rotors are ceramic. i'm not sure about the million-mile claim though.
just had some free time, thought i'd share. browsing wreckedexotics.com for wrecked SLR's made me cringe. not to mention every other supercar that i can only dream of owning.
hope everyone had a good monday.
just had some free time, thought i'd share. browsing wreckedexotics.com for wrecked SLR's made me cringe. not to mention every other supercar that i can only dream of owning.
hope everyone had a good monday.
06-23-2008, 08:16 PM
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