Car brakes
Apr. 12th, 2009 07:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johnridleyFull replacement of rear brake pads and rotors on the 97 Taurus today. Took about 45 minutes total once I had all the parts. Yesterday we flushed the system full of fresh fluid (first time ever)
Interestingly enough, I bought the parts at Murrays, came home, and had TOTALLY the wrong rotors. I had 4 lug vented rotors instead of the 5 lug solids that I needed. I went back and they looked it up again, and said "That's really weird, that IS the right part number." They went in the back and got two more boxes, we opened them up and those boxes had the right part in them. It looks like there happened to be two boxes mis-packed and I happened to get them. They were still factory taped.
The salesman exchanged them and gave me 15% off for the mistake (8 bucks).
I think the pads had been changed back at about 60K, but the rotors were original (and looking bad, mainly due to rust).
Odometer: 128850
Interestingly enough, I bought the parts at Murrays, came home, and had TOTALLY the wrong rotors. I had 4 lug vented rotors instead of the 5 lug solids that I needed. I went back and they looked it up again, and said "That's really weird, that IS the right part number." They went in the back and got two more boxes, we opened them up and those boxes had the right part in them. It looks like there happened to be two boxes mis-packed and I happened to get them. They were still factory taped.
The salesman exchanged them and gave me 15% off for the mistake (8 bucks).
I think the pads had been changed back at about 60K, but the rotors were original (and looking bad, mainly due to rust).
Odometer: 128850
