I have a 2020 Jetta with 54k miles, breaks squeak now and dealership wanted $2100 to change all four brakes pads and rotors.

In the past with my older Honda civic (2004) I would just take it to a local DYI mechanic I know and buy the parts myself. This car has electronic parking and he didn’t want to mess with it.

No clue how much this is supposed to cost tbh

  • phucyu142@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I have a 2016 Jetta S and although I haven’t changed my brake pads yet, I was checking out some videos on how to do it and it looks like there’s nothing fancy going on.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd6kQpyiUaM

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhf0UtFWbp8

    I’ve changed brake pads many times on my other cars and after looking at those videos, it looks like how I change brakes on my other cars.

    The dealership is probably also replacing the rotors but I’m going to get flack for this but I’ve just replaced the pads without changing or turning the rotors on my other cars and never had a problem. You probably want to get new rotors if you feel your brakes pulsing when coming to a stop which would indicate that one or more of the rotors are warped but if they feel fine, than just changing the pads should be fine.