If you are familiar with ‘Just Brakes’..their advertised rate as visible from the road is $99 for a brake job — shoes, pads..whatever. When all was said and done and the keys handed to me, I was a good six hundred dollars poorer.
All these franchise places are highly skilled at charging for “extras” like putting the things on your car. I’m glad my wife had found a very good ABS guy (police departments three towns over use this guy, and this is the west three towns is a long way to tow a vehicle for a brake job) and he hooked us into the good mechanic pipeline.