Holy Cow!1595.00 for tires/brakes on 2021 hyndai!

Man am I just getting older and don't have a clue on cost of things?or is that outrageous?

Not really enough details to give any kind of meaningful response.

I totally agree, It is crazy,.but it depends on the size, brand, and type of tire.

I have had to buy tires that were over $250 each so right there is $1100 after mounting & balancing.

Add brakes ???

Top it off with some shops replace rotors as part of the job and say we can't turn new rotors. I say it's a money grab but many people just say yes & thank you.

It is stupid expensive to own a nice or many new cars today.

I have students tell me it is cheaper to uber to school 3 days a week than pay for car note, gas, insurance and maintenance/repairs. I can't argue with that.

Sad how stupid expensive it gets.

Take a clear picture of your invoice and post it.

Also, and I'm not trying to be a [censored] saying this but, if you think $1,595.00 for tires/brakes is outrageous, buying a new Challenger or Charger probably isn't a good move.

Does anyone still turn rotors? Seems like the preferred technique is to toss rotors and replace them with cheap Chinese crap. I've got a pick up with over 300,000 miles on it. I've never worn the pads out, I end up replacing the rotors (and pads) when the brake shimmy from highway speed gets too sporty.

I’ll probably pay over $1200 for tires on my 2015 SRT Challenger (33,000 miles now)

A gallon of milk is no longer a quarter either! Heavens to Murgatroid!

Just did the front tires and brakes including rotors and had to break off the locking lugs as the locking lock was missing replaced 1 new lug per wheel.tires where 195/65HR 15.Incuding my Veterans discount the bill came to..772.20 getting the rears done in 2 weeks.

Good point Moparmike we've already shelved tthe idea of a new leftover challenger so that ideas done.Il get a classic mopar when we can.Thanks guys for you're thoughts.

Have a 2013 VW beetle with 300,000 miles on it and we have hardly spent much more than that on it. (not including tires.)

10 years ago South Oak Dodge hit my ex with a bill for $600 for replacing shoes and drums on her 2010 Caliber. Labor alone was $300.

She took it in because one shoe squeaked against the backing plate when you put the brakes on. When she got it back it still squeaked.

I just replaced the tires on my wife's Lexus LS 460. Michelin 235/50r18 - price was almost $1200, without mounting and balancing, plus disposal fees and taxes..... Oh yeah, they also wanted to charge me for new valve stems and $12:50 for TPS removal and reinstall per tire.....

3 years ago I had over $1,000 in just replacement parts for the brake system on a 96 Dakota. That was pretty much every part, but no labor, and no tires and all the hoopla that is attached to those.

When I replaced the tires, I bought them on sale (235 75 R 15), buy 3, get one free. Then add the mounting, balancing, taxes, and the disposal fee for the old tires and the bill was still over $600, and those were nothing special tires in a common size. I'm thinking that just maybe, sitting the comfy chair waiting in the shop waiting room for someone to tell me my brakes and new tires have been installed and the bill is $1600, might not be too bad. I invested a lot of effort and spent more money to put brakes and tires on my truck.

I haven't heard that expression since the '70's...in a cartoon

Well, Thufferin' Thuccotash - b-b-but boy, ah say, ah say boy...

Tires @ $150-200 each, for 4 and a full set of brakes, $1600 wouldn't really surprise me.
But for just one axle's worth, that seems spendy to me.
And last Summer my Dually got 6 tires and my car trailer got 4.

Yeah I think some of the labor amounts are ridiculous. On my Cummins the fuel filter change was almost $400. Shop fees, epa fee and of course tax.. I was out of town and my wife got the service. Parts were $129. I've done this ever since. It takes my 30 minutes (I move slow) and the parts are $96. I use wix filters vs the Mopar ones. Just can't believe they charge that much such a simple job. Just glad I'm able to do most of the work on it.

You can cut some rotors,depending the type&condition.I see alot of rotors so rusty they can not be cut.Most gm rotors chatter when you try to cut them.

I haven't heard that term used in decades 😲😉

Just price out a set of tires for your current classic mopar. $225 for 255/60's. Was looking at 205/60's for the front of the barracuda and heck those are 175 each. That is $800 just for the tires. Sad,I put 275/60's on the Cyclone rear and think they ran me $135 each but yeah, that was 7 years ago.

It seems no one can do anything right any more. The FSM directs you to lubricate the backing plate where the shoes ride.

This is so true

Incompetence has taken over & getting worse. I left work one day & heard a noise in the front end of my truck. I'm only 3-1/2 miles from my office so I figured I'd get home, crawl underneath & take a look. Well, before I was halfway home I heard a much louder noise & felt a bad vibration in the steering. As much as I knew that the local Chrysler dealer would be expensive, it was right there so I pulled in & made the appointment to have them look at it. I also needed the annual state inspection which they can do, so it was easier to do it this way.

The next day the service manager calls to tell me I passed inspection but that I need a new transfer case & a new rear axle housing.

I said, "How can that be? The noise is in the front & the steering vibrated."

He explained, "They found nothing wrong in the front & the vibration was being transferred from the transaxle to the frame so that's what you're probably feeling."

Then he drops the bomb saying they want $6000 to fix it all. I told him to forget it, I can't spend $6000 right now. I went in, paid for the inspection & had it towed to another shop that I usually go to. The other shop calls me & the guy says, "You have a broken front axle & there's nothing wrong with the transaxle or your rear. That'll be $800 total. And by the way we did your state inspection because it was overdue."

The dealer did the inspection but never put the sticker on.

Holy Cow on tire prices is right.

But except for HDTVs ,
oatmeal,
and un-mined mineral State tax collections,
everything is inflated.

I have never vacationed in Argentina,
but I have heard an American $ buys a lot there
and they do have the world’s most southern coal mine.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yacimientos_Carbon%C3%ADferos_R%C3%ADo_Turbio

South oak Dodge... I worked there back around '89-90ish

Hell .. just the price of PARTS these days to DIY is asinine.
Looked up front rotors for my Durango locally... Couldn't find em under 99.99 each anywhere in town. Got "power stop" ones WITH PADS from rock auto for $130.
Same Durango blower motor. $143 everywhere in town within a penny of each other. RA $43 plus shipping. eBay known name brand blower motor $40 to my door with free shipping, within 2 days....
As I remember none of the local places had it on the shelf anyway, id have had to wait on them too
As it turns out I've done 2 orders from rock auto 2 days apart for different stuff.... Can't afford local.

I heard RA is the best to deal with.

Many new cars have rotors that are surface hardened. It makes the initial surface last longer and the softer core helps reduce noise. If a tech cuts through the hardened surface the rotors will die quickly.

When I fist looked at rotors the pads came with them as a set.I don't think you can cut the scored rotors on the newer cheaper cars.

A few months ago (Dec) I replaced my wife's (still in All Season tread wear condition) Dunlop Winter Force dedicated snow tires with Blizzak WS90 snow tires @ $268 each. Add on $125 mounting and balancing PLUS TAX and it's just a little over $1300. Replaced O.E.M. Brake rotors and pads for her GLK and that's over $600 in parts (discounted as MB parts manager in a long, long time friend) and I replaced them with my labor, didn't even think about asking the price if she had the MB shop do it. I'm guessing over a grand if the shop did them. Check with the dealer about doing a transmission service (filter, pan gasket, level spout and fluid) $772.00 And milk WAS .25 cents and IT WAS DELIVERED TO YOUR DOORSTEP!! Nope it will never be the same, it is what it is and too many CYA costs included. Remember when a member tried to get a tire patched but the first dealer said NO. So we move on or we rant here

That isn't a recent thing. My 90 Supercoupe had the same thing. Don't buy ford rotors. The aftermarket were actually better and that is just plain nuts

Don't think the OP has priced stuff lately. I bought tires for my truck last year.....$900 and I mounted them myself. Tires for the wife's car ...$1000 and again..I mounted them. That includes a discount we get through work. Just this week we were looking at tires for my co-worker's Tacoma...very little out there under $300/tire....again mounted by us.

You're wright!It's been nearly 20 years!! lol!

I would like to know what the per tire cost increase has been to make the tire “lower rolling resistance” ...

Such tires save some money over their useable life on fuel.

....if you don't wreck the car first due to the lack of grip

Needs fact checking and or BS checking but supposedly most of the info is from the "sponsoring" tire manufacture. Just FYI and I'll post this in the EV thread so we can continue the

That's no shock. I recently paid over $1100 for four winters for my daily Hyundai. Cost us roughly that for four Cooper Cobras for the truck last summer.

I remember putting four Cooper Cobras on my AMC Hornet in 2002.... they were ON SALE.... $40 each. And I saved myself an additional $25.... because I took them to college with me and used the mounting machines we had in the shop. Buying tires never used to be such a production.

Brakes I do myself.

I'm even lucky enough to be getting a local tire shops' old equipment. Brake Lathe, Balancer, Tire machine and wash tank all for very good prices.
I figure the tire machine and balancer will pay themselves off after 9-10 uses, since a change-over now costs minimum $125.

I'll also have one of the only brake lathes' in town. I went searching last summer for someone to turn a pair of drums for me and that's when I found out - nobody has one. The only place that DID have one, was this local tire shop.... and that's when they started offering me their old stuff.

Better keep driving that parts delivery truck with no A/C.

Yeah there's an old school parts store near me that has a brake lathe in the back room that hasn't been used in 15 years or more. I've asked about buying it.
Also wanting a tire machine. Definitely have enough compressor already to run one.

Buying old equipment is fine for our old cars. It's different trying to do stiff low pro tires w/TPMS sensors on an old machine. Bust up a couple sensors and you'd likely be money ahead paying someone to mount the tires for ya. Same thing with rotors...trying to mount up thin,late model rotors on old/worn out lathes can be frustrating to say the least.

luckily, i can turn drums and rotors on a "real" lathe when needed, as well as whittle out many other projects using said lathe and bridgeport mill.
not many here can, or have access to real machinist equipment.
having fabricated a manual tire changing machine 40+ years ago, it has served my needs well over the years. however, it's a real cardio workout now that i'm old.
i have thought about purchasing a machine, but i haven't quite made up my mind. at my age, it might not be cost effective.
the one thing about having one's own machine, you have total control over very expensive tires and wheels, thus damage to said items is greatly reduced by eliminating the "bubba" factor.

Kc nope ..I'm a retired guy enjoying the mopar hobby...sitting on one of our decks at our house watching the birds, seagulls in the sun smoking cigars and drinking wine and making dinners for my beautiful wife,and taking care of our house.

True or not, I heard that modern rotors are made of cheaper material and after turning they are thinner and overheat.