13yo car, heat shield rusted off at joints and rattles around. New rattle came from rear passenger wheel. Dust shield was mangled and we removed it by hand. Pic below, hopefully. TPMS light has been on and I assumed I need new batteries, related? Anyway I've had substandard brake repair from dealer before with a set of pads and rotors only lasting 13k miles because the slide pins were stuck. When I take it in, what part should I expect to be sold?
The dust shield is inexpensive, but it's behind the bearing hub. Judging by the rust already, they will probably not be able to remove the bearing hub without making it nonreusable. So there will probably be a new bearing hub on your bill of materials also, at somewhere $300-ish if I remember right. The brake caliper might clean up ok without much part replacement, maybe just the fitting kit ($15 ish last I checked), maybe new slide pins if the old ones won't clean up. Or they might prefer to replace the caliper, or caliper and bracket. Those would add another handful of Benjamins if they came in red Toyota boxes.
My 2012 Prius (173K New England miles) has a passenger rear dust cover that is rusting to pieces. Just to confirm, it sounds like replacing this inexpensive part would require removing the bearing hub, right? I'm wondering what the downside is of just running without the rear dust shields. What do you think? (I have a Prius V, but it is my non-V model that currently has this problem.)
Update. I let it go until I couldn't. The brake line near the rear driver wheel sprung a minor leak. Thankfully no accident. It was almost a 2 week back order for the new lines. All in all, about $1700 for lines pads rotors. Apparently this dealer doesn't consider slide pin service part of a pad and rotor job since they wanted $140 extra. The dust shield on the rear passenger side wasn't replaced, the rattling heat shield was trimmed down.
