98 ml320,Time for brakes again!

[nisan17]

Hi Group,

My brake light is starting to flicker In my 98 ml320. I will determine shortly if it's my rear or front as I replaced my front pads in the summer of 2005.(does the rear have a sensor?) My mind is made up to replace the pads and rotors if it's the front as the front rotors are a little warped. I want to try a set of rotors from: www.frozenrotors.com as well as recommended pads. I just found this site a few months ago.
Can the more experienced techs give me some input please? Has anyone used these parts?
The rotors are said to never warp and last 3x's longer that regular rotors.
I will also buy these for my Volvos as their rotors always warp. I guess I drive my cars hard! I'm tired of replacing rotors in my cars and since it's time again in the ML, I'll try the frozen ones.
Also what's the deal with two totally different views when I called two indies for a rough estimate on a front brake job. The general indie says over $300 for parts and ceramic pads(dust free). The Import indie says just about $400 with parts and labor and he is going to use organic as they're dust free and won't chew up the rotor like the ceramic.
These guys both do excellent work. I'm going to buy the rotors and pads and have the general indie install same for about the same cost. The import Indie won't install my parts.

[DCF]

Couple of things. Ceramic pads do NOT chew rotors, semi metalics due. I have satisfied pro ceramics on the front, with OEM style brembo rotors, and have 30k miles on the set. Ceramic pads are also dust free (or it looks dust free as the dust is not black). Ceramic pads and frozen rotors up front should run you around $275-300 in parts alone.

[nisan17]

Semimetalic, I heard from another source chews up rotors. The import inde has one thing right, they never use their rotor turning machine as they don't cut them anymore, just replace em. The frozen rotor website has a couple of different compounds for different applications, I'm waiting for my quote to come back!

[G-Benz]

My 99 had only one sensor on the front driver's side pad. No sensors on the others.

Get yourself a #40 torx socket for removing the front calipers and do the job yourself. Takes some figuring out the first time, but since you'll be doing this every 20K miles or so, it's about a 15-minute job per wheel!

I can't quite understand why the dealership thinks this is a $1200 job!???

[tablahan]

Originally Posted by G-Benz

I can't quite understand why the dealership thinks this is a $1200 job!???

Yup assuming that the rotors havent gone metal to metal its supposed to be a drop down repair