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What is your stupidest recent car repair blunder
I'll start
Mrs. Beard has been complaining that the brakes on her car are much noisier since I replaced her pads with metallic pads, a few weeks ago. I seem to remember that the brakes sounded noisy on my 911 when I replaced them with metallic pads, and were a bit grabby at first. Sort of a scrapey sound.
So I bought a set of the CHEAPER pads and went about replacing them. I pull apart the driver-side brake and find...the inactive pad is installed backwards!?! No wonder it sounded like "metal on metal". It WAS metal on metal.
The only good out of this, the rotor was machined flat...
I wonder if I just flipped the pad, if it would have been fine...I went ahead and replaced all of the pads on the front. The pad lost all of the paint on the base, so I doubt just flipping would have been OK. Maybe if I painted it.
It does brake silently now.
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James
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the engineer adjusts the sails.- William Arthur Ward (1921-1994)
Red-beard for President, 2020
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