So I have been to the parts counter at two different stored FOUR times today trying to fix the brakes on my mother's Subaru. She told me the brakes were really bad, I test drove the car late the other night and agreed, brake pedal was softer than the clutch. I assumed the calipers seized since I just replaced the pads last summer, so I bought new calipers, pads, and rotors for $430. Well, I removed a front wheel, and everything looked brand new. So I am really puzzled and walk around to the back of the car and look at the brakes, and discovered both rotors had disintegrated. They literally crumbled off the car. So I took all the crap I had bought back, and bought just the rear rotors since I had a set of pads for the rear already. Then I get it all apart, clean out the caliper and go to insert the pads, they were fronts.
So I drive 45 minutes to the closest open parts store (previous store closed at 5pm) and get rear pads. Then I drive home, finish that side of the car, and take apart the other side. I had the pads in the caliper, grabbed the rotor to throw it on the car... ....and the bolt pattern was different.
Now I gotta squeeze a quick run to her house in with all the other crap I gotta do tomorrow. I'm planning on rebuilding a 1986 Evinrude 9.9hp 2cyl outboard tomorrow to get the 26 foot Cape Dory sailboat in the water!!
Clffs - Anyone else hate buying replacement parts at the parts counter?



Clffs - Anyone else hate buying replacement parts at the parts counter?