We have a car that’s in for repairs. The whole transmission is being redone, and when they took the engine out they found out that the brake lines are in bad shape and need to be replaced entirely front to back.

For this they gave us a quote of around $3000.

We were speaking to a friend and she said she had hers replaced for around $300 a short while back.

Is the price we got realistic?

  • caesarkid1@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Yeah that rust isn’t that bad. Usually people just replace the broken sections with new, not the whole thing. If they were to replace the whole thing it could take a while, but it’s not necessary.

    Lines do fail eventually from rust but usually the pedal will get spongy first before one set of brakes fails. So you would have some kind of warning.

    I would pass on the repairs for now.