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Old 06-25-08, 09:00 PM   #9 (permalink)
petroxg
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Car 1: 99 Mazda Protege
Car 2: 07 TL w/Navi
I don't know much about those service they say u need, but I can almost assure you that a lot of time many mechanics especially the car dealers ones love to tell u all these services that u need that are just BS.

Let me give u an example that I went through myself, my old Mazda Protege which I still drive right now when I brought it in on a 90K service 3 years ago they say I need to replace my brake pads and my rotor too cuz is below spec (whatever that means), I m like no thanks cuz I know how to do it myself. Guess what? I open it up myself and about to replace all of them, the rotor look just fine to me, but brake pad looks a little thin. So I decided to only replace my brake pad.

HERE is the kicker, now that it is 3 years later with 133K miles on my car..like 43K miles later, I still haven't replace that rotor and my brake still work just fine, no squeking sound or whatever. What is that tell u, whatever the machanic told me b4 is all BS. And this is only a Mazda I m talking about not even a high-end luxury car. I would think Acura rotor would last a lot longer than just merely 40K miles on it. At least 100k if not more or am I wrong?
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