Brake Pad Replacement Cost

What owners actually paid

What this repair is

Brake pads are the friction material that clamps your rotors to stop the car — the single most common wear item on a vehicle. A pads-only job is realistic when the rotors are still thick and smooth; caught late, the rotors usually have to be replaced too, which roughly doubles the bill.

Brake Pad Replacement cost by vehicle

The most-repaired vehicles first. Each range is the middle half of real invoices for that vehicle; vehicles with their own page carry the full breakdown, real repair reports and a printable Fair Price Report.

Middle half of real invoices (25th–75th percentile) for that make and model, parts + labor.

What moves the price

• Pad grade — ceramic and OEM pads cost more than economy semi-metallic.
• Rotor condition — pads-only works when rotors are thick and smooth; otherwise it becomes a pads-and-rotors job.
• Hardware and slides — cleaning and lubricating the caliper hardware is what keeps new pads quiet.

Quotes near the low end usually mean economy pads, hardware reused, no rotor service. Quotes near the high end usually mean premium or OEM pads, rotors resurfaced, seized slide pins freed up.

The complaints behind this repair

Owners who end up with this repair most often came in with: Brakes Grinding · Grinding or Squealing Noise When Braking · Brakes Squeaking or Squealing · Car Shakes When Braking. Each of those pages shows how often the complaint actually ends in this fix, and what the alternatives cost.

Not sure what's wrong yet?

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