My Experience.........no dealer involved

I replaced the front and rear brake pads. 92264 miles on the original pads.
I still had room left before any scraping so I could have easily gotten another 2-3k out of them.

It took me less than 1 hour per wheel, really quick and easy. It was more like 40 minutes per side on the front, 1/2 hour per side for the rear. Three hours tops to do all four.

Parts used for my 2011 TE:
04465-60320 Front Brake pad set $42.12
04466-60140 Rear Brake pad set $44.85

A new set of 4 OEM rotors is about $250
Having the rotors resurfaced at a machine shop is 1/2 that. Even cheaper if the have the machine in house.

There was no need to buy rotors, shim kits, new springs or anything but the pads.
I always just re-use all the old gear, you can easily tell if one is damaged. Only change to that would be if the rotors were scraped/warped beyond repair or you lost a pin, shim or spring. In my case all the rotors and misc parts where good, so I left them alone.
My total cost <$87 and 3 hrs time on the weekend.


OP: Cost of parts listed above + 3 hours (inflated) of shop time @$140/hr, should put you around $750 for the job. I bet most shops can do it in 2 hours

Not sure how they got it to $1K..........