Slowing down and stopping is a good thing, I guess

Brake pad replacement, rotor replacement, brake system flush, and lifetime brake repair agreement = $572.79.

It’s amazing what one little idiot light on an instrument panel can lead to.

Oh! On the brighter side, back in January I discovered that the tires I had on the car were not Run Flats but ordinary old radials. In the process of getting access to the brake pads the mechanics needed to use a specific lug nut key to undo one of the four on each front wheel. I hadn’t a clue whether I had said key. We lifted up the floorboard in the miniscule storage compartment behind the passenger seats and there, recessed, was a little tool kit which held the lug nut key, a scissors jack and a lug wrench. Now I wondered: why do I need a jack if there’s no spare tire, which was what I’d been led to believe? We bent down and looked under the car, and lo and behold, there is a spare in a wheel well under the car’s chassis.

There. Besides the new brake pads, I discovered I have a spare tire too. I guess I shouldn’t complain overmuch about this episode.

2 Comments

  1. Thanks, that is very helpful to know. I’m going to be in the market for a new (used, most likely) car in the near future and had categorically ruled out Minis for that very reason.

  2. What, the Run Flat tires? They’re expensive buggers, that’s for sure. The wheel well underneath the car is easily visible by bending over and looking under the back bumper. Just don’t trust what the salespeople say, as they may honestly not know. They’re repeating what they’ve heard.

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