Front brakes, wheel bearing repair price?

I just took my truck (2008 DC PreRunner TRD-OR) to a recommended auto shop in town for an estimate on new front brakes and left front wheel bearing.

The estimate came back to $745.28! That includes new pads, new rotors and new wheel bearing assembly, plus five hours labor.

This is my first Tacoma, though not my first truck. This seems high to me. I just wanted to get some opinions from y'all and see if that was in fact high, or if it's par-for-the-course for these trucks.

Thanks!

 

That's a little high but is he using toyota oem brakes and rotors? If so that's not horrible. Just FYI, there's a member here that sells/builds hub assemblies for 4x4 and 2x4 2005-Current tacomas. I've bough 2 through him and they are amazing quality and easy to install (especially if you are doing your brakes since you'll have access to everything). Just one bearing from toyota is around $700. Here's a link:

http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/2n...ub-solution-ive-done-work-you-save-money.html

And as far as brake pads and rotors go, I'm sure you could do that yourself and save a bunch if money.

 

I came across that thread and that's something I'll explore in the future, but the problem I run into is I live in an apartment complex right now without access to a good garage. I'd love to do the work myself, it's just not feasible for me right now.

Thanks for the reply.

 

You could ask your shop if it's ok to use those parts in the link above.
The unit bearings are the expensive part of that job.

 

See, that's what confuses me. The cost of parts is only quoted at $298.96. It's the labor that's melting my credit card.

 

Contact BamaToy and he will sell simple bolt-on replacement for front bearings. Changing pads/rotors is soooo easy... You can get all of the parts and do everything yourself for way less. But, then some like to spend at the stealership...

 

A few months ago I replaced my front wheel bearings with new ones from BamaToy. It was so easy to do the swap. Since you already have to remove the caliper & rotor to replace the bearings, changing those would only take an extra few minutes. It took me about 45 minutes per side to get it done. Use the money you save toward mods.

 

Again, I'd love to do the repairs myself. But living in an apartment complex--and with friends that all live in apartments as well--doing it myself just isn't an option right now, unfortunately.

 

Sorry missed the apartment complex part.

 

I think bamatoy price is too high for the prerunner trucks. I did mine for just a little over $100 bucks each side for bearings. Just buy the parts online , take the hub and new bearings packed with grease to a machine shop and they will remove the old bearing and press the new ones to the original hub on for you and torque the adjustment nut, cost only $25 buck each for that step. The bearings I used are BMC off ebay and the seals/o-ring I got from rock auto. The adjustment nut was from toyomotorparts.com they sell OEM parts at a good price. So I must have saved 400-600 dollars by DIY and learn something in the process, that's the best part.

 

I wouldn't say too high, I'd say it's expensive because of what you get. You get a whole new hub assembly put together with mostly toyota parts and you get piece of mind. I've been down the road of having my original hubs rebuilt with new bearings and they only lasted a year or so.

 

A mechanic priced mine at $750 to do both sides got the parts from marion bumper for half of that and it's very easy to do the job. Saving me lotsof money

 

The high labor might be the time it takes to rebuild the hub or having to sublet the hub rebuild. I replaced my front wheel Prerunner hub with a pre assembled unit from nj636 in about an hour, your half way or better through a brake job labor wise at this point, you've already removed the wheel, caliper and rotor to remove the hub so added time would be to remove the old pads and slap in the pads and associated hardware. I think the convenience of pre-assembled hubs is well worth the price, a trip to the machine shop for me is 10 miles one way, no waiting, no return trip, and peace of mind that the hub was assembled by someone who has done it before and takes some pride in their workmanship.

I'd price the job with you supplying the pre-assembled hub.