Brakes

Today was quite the adventure!

We were looking at houses the other day and one of the areas we looked at was dictionary hill. This is the tallest hill that you can imagine, well on the way back down it I was pushing the brakes all the way down and we were still moving a little bit. very freaky!!!!! Well this went on almost the whole way down, as you can imagine we ruined our brakes on the car and smelled the intense flavor of burning rubber! So consequently we had to replace the back brakes. If you don't know much about replacing rear brakes they are very complicated. But if you can figure it out it is about a quarter of the cost. So Michael, who is not really a mechanic....to put it nicely, decided to try it, along with the help of my father in law Paul. Well about four hours later they declared...."we are finished!" So natuarlly they decided to take it for a test drive. Come to find out that not only do the back brakes NOT work but the e-brake is now out of commision too! So after all of that labor we had to take it into the shop anyways!!!

The good news is though that the shop said they were installed correctly but they just needed to be adjusted a little bit. So maybe my husband is a better mechanic than I thought:) As you can see by the picture it looks really complicated!! In the end we still saved about a hundred dollars so it was still worth the four hours that Michael put into it.