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Re: Turning brake rotor

To: Randall <randallyoung@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: Turning brake rotor
From: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 13:00:29 -0600 (CST)
On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Randall wrote:

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> Tim Mullen wrote:
> > 
> > I find if strange that all the ads for "brake jobs" on the TV and newspaper
> > always include turning the rotors/drums in the price.
> 
> IMO this is so they can sell you new rotors/drums at an inflated price. 
> I once had a national chain insist that an almost-new rotor (less than
> 5000 miles) was too thin to turn.  I also once asked to just have a drum

They want to turn them because they wear out quicker and then they get to
sell you new ones.  Very convienent, eh?  I had a place turn my rotors --
despite my  written instructions not to -- and then tell me that they were
too thin to refit.  We compromised.  They didn't charge me, and I didn't
report them to the Attonery General.

David Scheidt


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