HappyPuppy
Lifer
I am amazed at the clueless people here who do their own brake jobs thinking it is such an easy thing to do. The most important safety feature on any automobile is its brakes and yet many think it is nothing to do a brake replacement.
I was a mechanic for 25 years working on just about every type of equipment you can imagine from cars, to trucks, to semis, to heavy earthmoving equipment to, the most dangerous of them all, cranes. I never took any repair I made lightly because other people's lives might depend on how well I did my job.
You knownothing, wannabe mechanics who have successfully replaced the brake pads on your Civics have been lucky, or maybe you are just smarter than the average bear. What pisses me off is that you egg others on, kids who have no business even picking up a wrench, to do their own brake jobs as well.
I don't care if you change your oil, swap spark plugs or put a $10,000 sound system in your car because those things are not going to endanger you, your passengers and others on the road. Brakes are more than a convenience, they are a fvcking necessity.
There is an active thread right now by an ATOT member who did his own brake job and is hesitant to drive his car because his brakes feel "spongey". He is asking for advice on what to do next. His narration recounts how he removed some "pins'. He doesn't know what they are for or why they are there. For all anybody knows they caliper pistons may have fallen out into his lap and he just stuffed them back in.
He mayb have tried to do his own brake job because of the ignorant blatherings of other mechanical noobs here.
Won't you all just pleas think of the children you may kill by doing your own brake jobs?
I was a mechanic for 25 years working on just about every type of equipment you can imagine from cars, to trucks, to semis, to heavy earthmoving equipment to, the most dangerous of them all, cranes. I never took any repair I made lightly because other people's lives might depend on how well I did my job.
You knownothing, wannabe mechanics who have successfully replaced the brake pads on your Civics have been lucky, or maybe you are just smarter than the average bear. What pisses me off is that you egg others on, kids who have no business even picking up a wrench, to do their own brake jobs as well.
I don't care if you change your oil, swap spark plugs or put a $10,000 sound system in your car because those things are not going to endanger you, your passengers and others on the road. Brakes are more than a convenience, they are a fvcking necessity.
There is an active thread right now by an ATOT member who did his own brake job and is hesitant to drive his car because his brakes feel "spongey". He is asking for advice on what to do next. His narration recounts how he removed some "pins'. He doesn't know what they are for or why they are there. For all anybody knows they caliper pistons may have fallen out into his lap and he just stuffed them back in.
He mayb have tried to do his own brake job because of the ignorant blatherings of other mechanical noobs here.
Won't you all just pleas think of the children you may kill by doing your own brake jobs?
