Well, my car has been making some terrible grinding sounds the past couple of weeks. I avoided getting it checked out thinking that it was just objecting to the cold and that there wasn't anything really wrong with it...plus, I didn't have the money to get it fixed.
This past week it has been sounding worse than ever, so I decided to ask my uncle to check out my break pads, because it sounded like they were going bad and that metal was scraping up against metal when I would break. He discovered that I needed new break pads and rotors for the front end, which is what I had expected (except for the rotors). And he also said it was worse on the right side, which I had also thought, so I felt pretty good about myself for being able to identify that. :)
So, I went out to the auto parts store and bought the new pads and rotors and I'll be dropping off my car at his house in a little while so he can work on it tomorrow while I'm in Columbus with my family. It was like $92 and some change for everything, but labor isn't going to cost anything, so I guess it's not too bad. I was expecting the replacement parts to cost way more than that, so it was a nice surprise.
Thankfully I came into a little bit of money from Mom and Dad for Christmas, and I have some from my grandparents, so it didn't break my bank account to buy the stuff, but I really wasn't planning on replacing anything on my car right now. I'm really trying to save up money, but every time I get a little extra that I think I can put aside, something like this happens...figures!
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