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?
Seems a little on the high end.
Also the pictures kinda shit. I’ve seen worse.
Is there some opportunity savings involved? Like are they saying it’s easier to do with the transmission already out of something?
Yes, they’re saying that, because they have the engine out already. But then our local mechanic said they don’t take the engine out to do brake lines, so I don’t understand.
Our mechanic is also saying that don’t go in and do it all, they just replace what’s actually breaking, not just rusty.
But from what they were saying we’re now also scared that the car might not be safe to drive if we wait to do it at another place. I really don’t understand.
The car is a 2009 Kia Sedona with about 120k miles.
They’ve done the transmission (mostly covered by the warranty so we have to pay around 2k for it) and that felt worth it, but now this is not covered at all and spending this much on a car that old feels stupid.
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.
