Since 1998, Veteran Owned - BuyBrakes.com has been fully engaged in guiding enthusiasts, racers, driving instructors and consumers in the complex subject of purchasing brake and suspension upgrades and delivering those components from dozens of the best brands in the world at the best pricing possible. When you connect to our sales team, you'll actually be talking live to real brake experts ready to discuss and provide solutions regarding your vehicle's braking and suspension challenges.Having a complex component, order or delivery problem that you feel you need to talk to the company founder about? He's at ext. 459 at our toll-free number where you could reach him live or he'll return your call the next business day. Who does that? We do.There is no better company at having complex conversations regarding the dozens of brake and suspension brand offerings as it relates to thousands of year/make/model vehicles on offer in North America. BuyBrakes.com is the go-to resource for automotive technicians and auto repair facilities to call when they are not exactly sure what Brembo, Stoptech, Wilwood or other brand Brake Caliper is hanging off the spindle on the car/truck or SUV that just pulled into their shop. Yes, they call us to find those tricky bits. Are we always correct? Only 98% of the time. The other 2% we're digging deeper within the hollowed halls of engineering staff inside the brands themselves.Are our vendors struggling with supply chain issues in 2021? Yes
BuyBrakes.com (buybrakes.com) has 511 customer reviews on Five Star Index, with an average rating of 4.1 out of 5.
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buybrakes.com
Category
Auto Parts & Wheels
Location
Bellingham, Washington
Listed on Five Star Index
2026
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To whom it may concern; Buy a set of discs with pads. The pads bring pin to keep the pads separate from the disc. When I go to install the pins,,,, the pads do not have the holes to put them,,, also the pads in just two days were full of black carbon. I got rid of the pads and tried to find a solution by sending several emails to the seller and they tell me they can't do anything. That's not good service,,, think about it if you're going to shop at buybrakes.com
CB
Customer B.
Do NOT BUY FROM THIS COMPANY!
How do you know all teh positive reviews are fake? Because they say they talked to someone and they never answer their phone. No, John will never follow up with you or anyone.
They ship whenever they want and outright lie to you. They say process in one day and state ship dates when they don't adhere anything close to those dates.
Then you can call and wait 15-20 min just to get a recording.
DISGUSTING COMPANY!!
So John sees teh bad review and answers and all he has is excuse after excuse after excuse. Problem is I didnt just call on Friday.
NO, you didnt ship on teh day I ORDERED YOU CREATED A LABEL. UPS confirms it wasn't actually shipped till days later.
All this Company had to do was own their mistake and apologize but it comes here direct from there owner who has sent me 3page texts blaming riots and fires for shipping delays??? WHAT?
Its easy you creat a label to make it look like you are shipping on time but don't. You post on your site teh days I will receive my package and didnt even ship till that day. Actually according to your site if I ordered on the day I called it would be at my home Faster than ordering days earlier so YOUR SITE IS WRONG.
Then he lies and says they did send shipping email when they didnt till 1 minute after I called.
In all fairness they did finally answer the phone AFTER 3 20 minute calls of being on hold but wait she hung up on me!!!
Could you imagine teh owner of a Co taking the time to text and have zero info on the issue and just make things up? How about I AM SORRY WE SCREWED UP AND LET ME TRY AND MNAKE IT RIGHT??????
BELOW IS STRAIGHT FROM UPS. I PLACED MY ORDER ON 4/4. YOUR SITE DOESNT SAY ONE DAY SHIPPING BUT IT STATES THE DAY YOUR ITEMS WILL ARRIVE BY AND YOU DIDNT SHIP TILL THAT DATE!!!!
KEEP SHOWING HOW RIGHT I AM!! THANKS JOHN
Times shown are in Local Time ChangeTime Zone
04/07/2023
4:14 A.M. On the Way
Los Angeles, CA, United States
04/06/2023
7:02 P.M. Label Created
United States
Response from BuyBrakes.comApr 7, 2023
Well, here I am at 3:38pm on Good Friday afternoon and the staff is gone for the rest of the weekend but here I am responding to your post via Trustpilot that came in 30 minutes ago. So, it's me... John, here at BuyBrakes.com, ready to help. I'll be here for a couple more hours. To reach me direct, hit 888-257-7149 and I'll get you back to the happy state if at all possible. You do have to realize that all the warehouses are closed over the Easter weekend, so an order can't ship 'till Monday, but ring me about the sku you need or any issue you want me to dig into. -JB
Ok, looking further into this specific order:
Brian,
It's Good Friday, one of the rare afternoons the staff gets to leave early.
Not a great day for an execution of the staff for our lack of quick-enough response.
But, before you nail everyone to the cross, here's the shipping info in depth....
In any event, Package number one was shipped on 4/5/23 the very day you ordered it.
Tracking Number
1Z7454530398680884
Service
UPS Ground
Weight
6.20 LBS
Shipment Category
Package
Shipped / Billed On
04/05/2023
Package number two was shipped out on 4/6/2023 the very next day your ordered it.
Tracking Number
1Z4E1A320348251129
Service
UPS Ground
Weight
1.00 LBS
Shipment Category
Package
Shipped / Billed On
04/06/2023
Regading our website's shipping information, where on here does it say "one day to ship" ?
https://www.buybrakes.com/shipping
Best for now,
John Butler
BuyBrakes.com
RY
Ryan
Terrible service
Order a rotor and pad set. Got charged and got an email confirming order. 2 days pass and no email update or anything updated online about shipping or tracking. Even though the estimated delivery time was on their site as the 10th. I call on the 9th to follow up. They said everything is in stock and would check why it hasn’t been shipped. The rep said I would get a call back that day with an update. 2 more days go buy .. no call no email no nothing. I call back in on the 11th to be told that some of the pads are now out of stock. They offered to substitute a 40$ pad in place of the 90$ pads. Then I could wait 7 more days to receive something that was told to me to be coming tomorrow. I expressed the urgency to them on the first call how the car wasn't word worth until the parts were received. This didn’t concern them they never not once updated me or told me they were out of stock, until I called in to check for myself mean while my wife has no car due to this delay. I would not at all recommend this place. Bad communication and lies.
TE
TexX
Shipped the wrong part but charged the…
Shipped the wrong part but charged the restocking fee and return shipping. Save your time don't deal with this sellers
JA
Jason A.
I ordered my brake calipers for a 02…
I ordered my brake calipers for a 02 jeep grand cherokee on a Thursday. I call them on the following week to see why I haven't gotten them on the day after of the supposed e.t.a date. The woman tells me that the eta isn't the estimated time of arrival. I had to remind her that's what eta stood for but she still argued. Days later finally get my calipers and it was missing 2 of the anti vibration pins that hold the pads in place. I asked for the hardware to be shipped and the woman got pissed that I refused to take pictures of the boxes that they were shipped in and the contents of the box. I was like really it's 5 bucks worth of bent aluminum. Just send me my effin hardware. Still haven't seen it to this day. Don't buy from these guys. Unless you like a hassled confrontation every time you call.
CU
customer
Don’t buy
Don’t buy. They flat out lie good luck trying to return what you ordered.
Response from BuyBrakes.comJun 22, 2022
If you've had your order less than 30 days and you haven't installed it on your vehicle, there is a high likely hood you'd be eligible for a refund. I'd suggest you ring me directly.
You, can call me directly anytime during business hours, always happy to have further discussions to improve and be of help.
Founder, BuyBrakes.com
John Butler
888-257-7149
CA
Cade
Terrible Customer Service and Company
I ordered two sets of brake pads over a month ago. After 2 weeks with still no shipping email, I called customer service to which Rose answered. She told me that buybrakes did not have their inventory updated whenever I ordered, so the brakes I ordered weren't coming. She told me she would send an email with a few options of what I could do next. Never got that email. After another week of waiting I decided I wanted to refund the order, and take my business elsewhere. After calling and *trying* to cancel my order, it seems that Rose wants to be of no help and has yet to send me a confirmation of my cancelation. Take your money elsewhere and save yourself time. BuyBrakes gets 0 stars from me. If you read other reviews, it seems that buybrakes LIKES to do this to other customers. Beware, and don't shop buybrakes.com. The company has made ZERO effort to fix THEIR mistake.
Response from BuyBrakes.comJun 15, 2022
Cade,
Stock on this item was dependent on the manufacturer StopTech who has been suffering through supply chain issues for way too many months now combined with their recent decision to move shipping warehouses which further compounded the problem. In any event, that supply issue combined with our staff shortages here internally created the wait/delay you dealt with. My apologies. We have yet to master the new world where our supply chain cannot be depended on. To counter it, we are increasing stock levels which will certainly help.
In any event, refunds are always available (we have issued yours today) for those who can't endure the wait for their specific parts ordered or we can help find an alternative. Again, my personal apologies for your experience.
You, can call me anytime, always happy to have further discussions to improve and be of help.
Founder, BuyBrakes.com
John Butler
888-257-7149
WM
william M.
So I order front ebc yellow brake pads…
So I order front ebc yellow brake pads for My daughters 2005 nissan maxima . They arrived Wednesday and when we open the box they were rear brake pads instead!!!! Called customer service and got no where with them, seems like customer service is in a different country.. They want to receive the wrong brake pads first before they will send out the front brake pads, and they want me to pay for the return shipping crazy!!! They screwed up not me and now I have to wait multiple days before she can used her car !!! This is unbelievable..
Response from BuyBrakes.comApr 15, 2022
When you go to BuyBrakes.com and put in 2005 Nissan Maxima, then use the year, make, model tool to shop for EBC Yellow pads, you will end up here....
https://www.buybrakes.com/2005-nissan-maxima/brake-pads/ebc-yellowstuff-street-and-track-brake-pads
That guides you to part numbers DP41659R for the front and DP41666R for the rear. On you order, you bought a completely different part number: DP41955R, so it makes sense it doesn't fit your vehicle.
I'm happy to jump in and help, call me anytime before 5pm PST, I'm always happy to have discussions to improve the experience. We'd like to help fix the issue you've encountered by ordering the incorrect part and ultimately have you revise this review. Call me directly.
Founder, BuyBrakes.com
John Butler
888-257-7149