On Wednesday, November 25, 2015 at 1:46:48 PM UTC-5, Oren wrote:
On Wed, 25 Nov 2015 10:14:58 -0800 (PST), DerbyDad03
wrote:

On Wednesday, November 25, 2015 at 12:46:27 PM UTC-5, taxed and spent wrote:
"DerbyDad03" wrote in message
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My daughter is home from college for Thanksgiving. She pulls in the
driveway
last night and says "Hi Dad!" (hug hug) "I think the car needs brakes,
could you look at them this weekend?"

So while the girls are inside stuffing the bird, I'll be out in the
driveway doing a 4 wheel brake job, pads and rotors. I want to start it
on Turkey Day in case I run into trouble. That'll give me Friday to
chase more parts if I need them. We have plans for Saturday and she has
to drive back home on Sunday.

I love the holidays! (and my kids)

At least she noticed, and told you. She is a cut above.

Thanks! I've been drilling the "You can't just drive it, you have to know
it" message in for a few years. She's pretty good at letting me know when
something isn't right.

Her older sister, who actually waited a lot longer to get her license (and
therefore a car) can't even put air in the tires yet. She'll get there...
she's only had her license for a year and a car for a few months.

Her brakes are OK so she's just getting snow tires this weekend. Her
younger sister is getting brakes and snows. Little sis drives 50+ miles
each way, to/from her internship, 3 days a week. She's racking up the
seat time!

Between the wheels, tires and brakes, I dropped close to $1700 this week.
It's a good thing my labor is "free". Christmas came in November for
those two! :-)

Wonder if you will get that car lift you wanted for Christmas, but
that will be after the brake job is done.

Man, I could have used it today. Getting up and down, sitting, kneeling, twisting,
turning...I am beat! What a pleasure it would be to do a brake job standing up,
with all my tools within reach. Simply walking to get a tool instead have to get
up first would be so sweet.

I've done 2 complete brake jobs in the past month or so. I've saved the
cost of that lift plus some. I've bought a lot of tools recently that makes the
jobs so much easier, but dropping the cost of the lift still seems a bit much.