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07-29-2013, 03:10 PM | #1 |
Drives: 08 Yaris Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Nashville
Posts: 7
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Bent brake drums after installing new rims
A couple of days ago, after noticing a noise from my front wheels when driving at highway speed, I took to my local tire shop. After running diagnostics they determined that I needed a new rim, and that I needed to have them replaced immediately or risk an accident. They wanted $650 for the repairs, but being a little wary of tire shop mechanics I figured to I would get a second opinion at a a auto repair shop who I had dealt with in the past with good results.
The second shop after doing some diagnostics ($90) said that that my car had in fact two bent rims and would repair everything for $350 plus tax. This quote didn't include a tire alignment like the first shop, and they would used rims ($95 dollars each) instead of new ones ($150 each). We figured that since the tires seemed to be wearing evenly, an alignment probably wasn't necessary. I went with the second shop, because I felt they seemed more trustworthy. On Friday I picked up my car and everything seemed fine. On Saturday morning, my wife was on the highway and suddenly without warning, found that our Yaris began to shake up and down rather violently every time she touched the brakes, and later even had trouble getting it to make left turns. We had it towed back to the shop on Saturday and this morning I got a call from a mechanic at the shop telling me that my cars brake drums were bent. He didn't think it was his fault for not noticing this and now wants another $150 plus tax to replaced two of the break drums on my car. Is he correct about it not being his fault, or could something have happened when installing the replacement rims to cause the drums to become warped? Also is there a market for bent rims? |
07-29-2013, 04:32 PM | #2 |
Drives: '08 Yaris Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Dover, Ohio
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I don't see how installing a wheel could bend a drum, but your whole story sounds pretty crazy to begin with.
I can't believe diagnosis was $90 to determine you had bent wheels, it takes literally seconds to throw them on a balancer. Also, you said the bent wheels were on the front, and drum brakes on our cars are on the back. I'd take the car to another mechanic/shop, tell them you were told you need a drum brake change, and hope it fixes everything. An easy way to tell if it is bent would be to take a wheel off the back, and visually eye it up or take a straight edge. Or place the car on jackstands and rotate the rear drums to see if they wobble. Bent wheels = scrap. |
07-29-2013, 05:38 PM | #3 |
Drives: 2010 Yaris Sedan Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Kentucky
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Sounds like somebody used a 3/4" impact set on kill to tighten the lug nuts.
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07-29-2013, 06:46 PM | #4 | |
Drives: 08 Yaris Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Nashville
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08-01-2013, 12:09 PM | #5 |
Dobbiedoo
Drives: 2009 5 door Hb Yaris Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Stoughton,Ma
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If you were getting a noise from the front, why were they working on the back? It seems to me that you need to dump those so called mechanics, they trying to get rich, you should start learning to be a backyard mechanic. How did the rotor get damaged, did she hit something it must have been some hard braking.Well good luck.
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