IML: Brakes

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It sounds to me like both parties got screwed.   Brake job like shoes, wheel cycl, and drums turned should never cost more that $500.00 and that is high.  I did the brakes on my     64 Imperieal myself and the shoes were less than $60..00 for front and rear.  Now it has be a few years but still should be under $100.00 for shoes, and you can buy wheels cycl for about 30 t0 40 dollar ea.  
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> Subject: IML: Am I getting screwed?
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> If I wrote out all the details and the whole story it would take pages, so
> here is the brief summary.  I took my '63 Custom to get new brake shoes on
> the front and the rear at Midas. They called me and said that I also needed
> 4 new wheel/brake cylinders.  I don't know anything about brakes really, so
> when they told me I was leery. I mean, the car was stopping, granted it
> sounded like hell, but it was still stopping...if all of my cylinders had
> gone out would the car still stop?  Whenever I went to pick her up last
> night I felt really uneasy about the whole situation, they just weren't
> giving me the comforting feeling that they knew what they were doing or that
> something was going on.  They took her off the lift and had me test drive it
> because the brakes seemed mushy to them.  I was scared to death, she
> wouldn't stop and we almost wrecked. I took her back and they came up with
> some crap about while bleeding the brakes in old cars sometimes the valve in
> the master cylinder will go out and that I needed a new master cylinder.
> The master cylinder was fine whenever I took it in there.  That, and I just
> payed $846 for new shoes and the 4 wheel cylinders.  I believe I was already
> screwed on the price, but I just want the input, advice and insight any of
> you may have.  My boss told me that there wasn't a valve that they are
> speaking of.  Please help anyway.  I want to be prepared whenever the guy
> calls me about Ms. Pearl today.
> Megan
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