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so neither myself nor my wife have ever replaced front brakes before.
Recently through the help of ETCG (stay dirty) I replaced the fuel pump
in my old 1999 Mercury Mystique. My local garage wanted $600 and I
replaced it for about $20 myself.So recently we noticed our 2007 Toyota matrix have brakes that seemed
to lack stopping power. My wife even had an incident that she had
trouble stopping in time for a light. I called my local garage and
they wanted $350 to replace them. I wasn’t sure if it was my pads or
not. I looked through ETCG and watched his video on replacing front
brakes.. I checked the pads and they were very worn (under 1/4 inch)
they had not been squeeling yet tho!I decided well I’ll try to replace the pads.. I went bought some new pads.
The basic ones were $29 for both front wheels and the premium ones were
$57. I went with the good ones.I watched Eric do it afew times.. Note: I did not do the bottle trick to
catch the extra brake fluid tho.I must say replacing these pads were so Easy I was laughing and my wife
complimented me. I even had her help on the 2nd wheel.I posted some picutures that I took during the process.
Thanks guys! — oh Savings on this was $275! not to mention the time
and annoyance of taking it into the shop.
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