If you are one of those persons that pay attention to how they spend their money you might prefer changing your brake pads on your own instead of going at a garage and paying them to do it for you.

Besides this you’ll be looking to buy good and cheap brake pads and the place to buy them and save is absolutely online.

Prices vary amongst different garages and retail shops depending mostly on:

* brand of the pads they offer

* shop size, hence the quantity of pads they have

* how much they want to earn on you

Changing your pads on your own enables you to buy them online saving a lot and have your pads delivered to your door.

I decided to try to find the pads for a 2005 Audi A4 V6 3.0L, searched on all the major stores and found two stores that have the pads I need with really good prices:

the result of this test is that I was able to find the brake pads online saving almost 50% on them: yes, 50%!

Online stores can really cut down prices because the product makes a shorter path between the manufacturer and the buyer, totally skipping the wholesaler to retail shipping and the retail shop price increase.

Buying online has several advantages depending on the store: most online car parts stores have promos and discounts that change daily such as free delivery, free gifts, bonus products, rebate coupons

Both the stores I found have the same product, the prices are more or less the same with some minor differences on shipping methods and coupons.

I found the same brake pads set (standard replacement pads) for the four wheels for roughly $45-$55 shipping included that is a lot less than you’d get at a retail shop or garage.