Toyota Camry: Where can I go for a better price

My 2000 Camry makes a extra hissing sound when I take my
foot off the brake and the car starts to move. Or when I
brake and the car slows to a stop. The dealer checked and
says the thickness of the rotors is about the minimum. To
replaced them and the pads comes to $330+tax. Where else
can I go in Los Angeles for a better price other than the
dealer? Pepboys? Sears? Do they do brakes? Should I go
for Genuine parts or not?

On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 22:24:39 GMT, Dakelton
<org> wrote: 

My Camry has 42k now. But between a dealer and a garage
store that I went, one of them did a total fuck-up job.
Being a non-tech, I don't know who to blame.

The brake pads were replaced in May at a garage store when I
hear squeaking sound while braking. My car had 32k then.
The store serviced the rotors too to smooth up a bit. When
my car was checked by a dealer two months later on a routine
maintenance check, the pads were 11mm thick but shims were
missing. I took my car to the garage store and they put the
shims back.

The dealer checked my car again three months later on
another maintenance check. They said the shims were still
missing. My understanding is there should be either 4 or 8
shims on front brakes but the garage store probably put back
only a few. By then I was sick of that garage store, so I
had the dealer put on new shims. But I didn't see their
remark on paper that the pads were 4mm thick until I
recently hear hissing sound from under the hood when I brake
down to a stop or brake down to make a left.

The dealer checked. Now they say the pads are 2mm thick and
the two rotors are (I believe he said) 26.5 and 26.1, which
are close to the minimum 26.0, and that is why the car makes
the noise. I asked why the pads went from 11mm to 2mm in 7
months and after only 10k miles. The guy said it shouldn't
but it obviously happened.

I remember the garage store said the pads are Toyota parts.
Do they come with a one-year warantee by any chance? Then I
only have the rotors to buy.