ATS-V Brake Refesh

[Bruce Nunnally]

4/2/2020 I had the guys over at Linear Automotive in Plano come fetch the ATS-V this week for a brake refresh.  It has 42K miles on it now so they would be needed soonish, and it is a great time to send work to locally owned businesses.

The parts were a little eye watering.  Although my friends at Crest Cadillac in Frisco offered to just change the pads front & rear for $950, no one really turns rotors any more to get them back to flat.  I generally think of an easy brake job as inexpensive, but didn't consider V brakes.

I had the parts shipped from RockAuto.com so the MSRP on each part was signicantly more.  In fact, the first estimate for the whole job was over $3K just to refresh the brakes, pads & rotors. The front rotors retail for $733 each; the right & left are different. The front pads retail for over $500.

Here was the final discount parts / materials bill from Rockauto:

	Part Number	Part Type	Price EA	Core EA	Quantity	Total
No Vehicle Specified
ACDELCO	1711040 (171-1040)	Brake Pad	$ 229.79	$ 0.00	1	$ 229.79
ACDELCO	1711127 (171-1127)	Brake Pad	$ 116.79	$ 0.00	1	$ 116.79
ACDELCO	1771233 (177-1233)	Rotor	$ 75.79	$ 0.00	2	$ 151.58
2016 CADILLAC ATS 3.6L V6 Turbocharged
ACDELCO	1771194 (177-1194)	Rotor	$ 354.79	$ 0.00	1	$ 354.79
ACDELCO	1771193 (177-1193)	Rotor	$ 354.79	$ 0.00	1	$ 354.79
Discount						$ -60.39
Shipping	DHL Domestic Express					$ 126.97
Tax						$ 101.95
Order Total						$ 1376.27
Visa						-$ 1376.27
Balance Due						$ 0.00

 Then there were labor charges for doing the brakes themselves, and brake fluid flush, so that added another almost $600.

so, the good news is Rockauto and Linear Automotive saved me around $1K compared to full retail for the same parts & services.    The bad news is now I have to recalibrate how much I think it costs to refresh the brakes on a V-Series.

 

[BodybyFisher]

Good for another 42,000 miles though 😉

[Bruce Nunnally]

and they did detail and sanitize it while it was there, so there's that.