A sure fire sign the holidays...

[growalot]

When the rotors look as bad as the four on the car did ...no one has a good price....

 

Though they did give me a free loaner

Edited November 17, 2015 by growalot

[ApexerER]

I will gladly pay your bill if you pay mine...I just learned this morning that my roof can't be repaired and I need a new one.....Yesterday had service guys over because I didn't have any hot water....I thought that was going to be my holiday bill....Nope wasn't big enough....

[growalot]

Sorry we are in the same boat for the roof and furnace guy comes later in the week...just makes me laugh...

PS.... we tried to get estimates on this modified A frame...they didn't even want to give one...hahaha

Edited November 17, 2015 by growalot

[turkeyfeathers]

New rear pads and rotars last October. This October inside a year. Calipers had locked up killing pads and rotars. No warranty as calipers still original. I got just short of one year out of them. $700 later and walking funny for a few days I'm all set. Not happy !!

[growalot]

Wow TF that just made my 4 feel better...thanks....and sorry...

[jjb4900]

shocks, struts and control arms last week..........$1050.00.

[WNYBuckHunter]

rotors

[jmg343]

All this stuff really ain't that hard to do yourself and it'll save you a ton of cash. I do all my work myself.

[growalot]

Dang!   you had me going back to check that WNYBH...hahaha

[jjb4900]

I'll do a lot of my own work.....but it all depends on what else I've got going on, I would rather pay the couple hundred in labor this time of year and spend the day doing something else...like hunting.

[growalot]

Parts alone were over 350.00...cheap labor for us considering what he gets paid...time is money ...

[growalot]

See sure fire way to know the holidays are near......I knew it wasn't just us ..nearly every year...

[DirtTime]

It's always this time of year when things go wrong. Vehicles break down or need parts, something around the house breaks. 

[Doc]

Yes this is not a real good time to be encountering that kind of big expense. But consider this ...... lets pretend the holidays were over, and it is February, and we had a nice new 8" of snow over a layer of ice, and you were coming down that hill with no brakes. Maybe it was a stroke of exceptionally good luck to have at least had dry pavement.

[growalot]

That scenario for most Doc...but. not for me...I never go down our hill using the brakes...I use the transmission..also I'm sure we UN like the younger ppl here were taught how to stop on ice...I had the best darn drives Ed teacher born...went to York but he took us to Pavilion...Mr.Morris and Geneseo to learn...I was taught on the back road hills in Pavilion how to stop on an icy hill using the emergency brake only...also how to stop at the bottom of the Mr Morris school hill...not learning that could get you aT bone with a semi...if his brake foot wasn't fast enough....Lol

Edited November 18, 2015 by growalot

[Dom]

That scenario for most Doc...but. not for me...I never go down our hill using the brakes...I use the transmission..also I'm sure we UN like the younger ppl here were taught how to stop on ice...I had the best darn drives Ed teacher born...went to York but he took us to Pavilion...Mr.Morris and Geneseo to learn...I was taught on the back road hills in Pavilion how to stop on an icy hill using the emergency brake only...also how to stop at the bottom of the Mr Morris school hill...not learning that could get you aT bone with a semi...if his brake foot wasn't fast enough....Lol

Lol!Whats a transmission?It's funny to myself because I learned to drive when a standard tranny was still on the tree.Today most still do not know how to use or drive a manual car/truck/tractor.

[growalot]

It was A trip teaching t h e kids how to drive a standard...both of them had them as first cars...It was a thing I insisted on as well as Mr.B...one of our daughter summer jobs was driving a dump truck on a job..our son tractors on a farm...They both appreciated it...