I was quoted at $800 to have brake service when all I hear is a slight noise when I brake for 94 BMW. Help?

I have a BMW 325i 94 and quoted me at 800 dollars for brake pads and rotors when I did an inspection. All I hear is a slight noise when I brake on my driver side tire. Rotors are not warped just old. No vibrations. What should I do? I would change them myself but am away from home for 5 months.I was quoted at $800 to have brake service when all I hear is a slight noise when I brake for 94 BMW. Help?I bet you went to BMW to get it fixed. Thats your reason. My brake light was on in my x5 and they wanted $300 just to look at it. Go to some cheap mexican thats what I did and it worked. Find somebody that services bmw's and get it done.I was quoted at $800 to have brake service when all I hear is a slight noise when I brake for 94 BMW. Help?
you could get the brakes pretty cheap from a place that sells performance parts. Often they also stock oem parts. Check out: www.koperformance.com

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I was quoted at $800 to have brake service when all I hear is a slight noise when I brake for 94 BMW. Help?Lets start this by saying that you own a BMW, they are a high line car and nothing is cheap to fix on one. If you went to a BMW dealer and they quoted you brakes, then they are probably just worn out, that is probably why you are hearing that noise. The reason for the rotors being quoted too is that the rotors wear out and get too thin with just one set of brake pads. BMW rotors are made of a softer metal than most other manufactures use, they do this because it makes the car stop better. I do not recomend putting aftermarket brakes on your car, for a couple of differant reasons. The first one being that it is ok to buy cheap parts sometimes but not on your brakes, the cheap brakes will not stop the car as well. The second one being that I have seen nothing but problems with aftermarket brakes for BMW's, they make all kinds of wierd noises and will somtimes act like thay are warpped.I was quoted at $800 to have brake service when all I hear is a slight noise when I brake for 94 BMW. Help?
You didn't say whether or not this was a dealer price. If it was then I would have someone who is a foreign (German) car specialist take a look at your brakes and give you a second opinion. I would stick with OEM BMW parts and not go with aftermarket ones which may be cheaper in price and quality. No matter who you have do your brakes you should use the OEM parts. All brakes are NOT the same some of the newer BMW's actually have sensors on them that pulse the brakes after they get wet to dry the moisture from the rotors. Trust the car to someone who knows what they are doing. Maintaining high quality cars costs money. It is what it is!I was quoted at $800 to have brake service when all I hear is a slight noise when I brake for 94 BMW. Help?It's a BMW remember the golden rule ,"Don't buy something you can't afford to fix later" .I was quoted at $800 to have brake service when all I hear is a slight noise when I brake for 94 BMW. Help?
Rotors are pretty expensive, a complete brakejob for my Dodge Ram was $600. If you can change them yourself, why not wait until you get home?
seems about right for a BMW at the dealer. i would go somewhere else thats cheaper since brakes are brakes nothing special.