Three months ago I paid $1,200 to replace the rusted out brake lines in a 2003 GMC Denali. My neighbor paid $1,500 for the same job on his 2003 GMCpickup. Apparently this is a common problem on most GM and Ford trucks for the late 1990s thru around 2010, but the facTories aren't recalling them.
I too normally do all my own work because I feel hosed by "certified" mechanics, but after looking at the factory routing of these lines (pinched between the body and the frame rail and in the front, routed thru a maze of crap), I said frig it, let someone else do it. I actually became a mechanical engineer because I hated designs like that when I worked at a gas station and thought I could do better designs. Forget that I also wanted to join the USAF and also didn't want to live in Detroit (both negated my education goal reason!).
Oh well. Most of you guys are way better mechanics than the "technicians" out there now. Most of the new guys can't troubleshoot anything that doesn't set a code in the computer! I'm not saying all of them are like that, but only the ones it seems that get to work on my vehicles.
