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PSA: A customer's 'recent' brake job in Tempe was actually done with parts from 2018
Last week, a car came in for a shake at highway speed, and after pulling the wheels, I found the box for the new-looking rotors in the trunk, dated from three years ago, which the owner swore were installed just last month by another shop.
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luna5507mo ago
Julia_hayes has a point about bulk buying, but a three year old box is a red flag. New rotors should have a recent manufacture date, not old stock. The shake at highway speed points to a bad install or warped parts, not just old boxes. So was the shop cutting corners or did the owner get the timeline wrong?
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julia_hayes7mo ago
Honestly, that box date doesn't prove anything. Tbh shops buy parts in bulk all the time and just grab from the shelf, so a 2018 date on the box is normal. The rotors looked new, right? The shop probably just had old stock sitting around. It's not like parts go bad sitting in a box. Maybe the owner is misremembering when the work was actually done.
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