Recent content by D1dad

Shocker here. $1800 a month for a truck that won’t start if your eyes are bloodshot. Cant believe they can keep them in stock.

What’s changed for us is we’re officially empty nesters. Grocery shopping is now weird and learning how to grill without a son who eats like a goat takes some getting used to and bitter sweet. I grilled 6 burgers the other night, forgetting that my son wasn’t here to eat 4. Grabbing milk by the...

I’d bet. Just a horrible pad. No dust but absolutely no bite at all. My brake system felt like the pads were carved from a block of cheese.

It’s finally under $4 here in Ohio which seems crazy that I’m happy about it. I got a full 30 gallons at Meijer using a $1 fuel mperk so paid $2.99. Felt good.

The rotors were actually good for the 20k that they were on. It was the horrible NAO pad material that glazed the rotors so bad. I scuffed them but it didn’t work. Turning rotors now days is a few buck less than new. Lesson learned.

Good deal. Your experience is one I had myself and why I won’t reuse rotors. I had relatively low mileage brembos that I replaced the god awful organic brembo pads on. Wasn’t long and I had new rotors on order due to noise that wasn’t a squeak.

This is the way. I just got Carquest rotors, the raybestos high carbon version and platinum Carquest pads for my sons Sentra. All 4 wheels for $150 shipped. All these parts are available at my local advance and would have cost over $400. I enjoy using good parts but not as much as I like scoring...

I have not but have 3 Nissans. I’ve never seen a Nissan rear caliper that you didn’t just push back in unless it had a EPB. Then it still was pushed back. Maybe I need to watch a video. Yep. Stupid screw in caliper with an in and outer pad. Pair of needle nose should get it done.

I just did a rock auto clearance set of the Carquest/raybestos high carbon (supposedly) rotors and platinum pads for $150 with shipping. All 4 wheels on my son’s 22 Sentra. Of course because of prop 65, they can’t ship to CA so I have to drag these things through the airport to San Diego to...

That second pic is either misleading or there’s a little grooving in the rotor? I’ve seen 10x worse and no brake issues whatsoever.

Not so sure how “rare” an engine failure is with Toyota now days. A guy who works for my son is still waiting on a new engine for his tundra. I don’t know enough about their trucks to know what engine a Tacoma uses, but I would stick to the recommendation of Toyota and keep detailed documentation.

Not bad for used rotors. I’m not familiar with those pads, but here’s new ebc rotors with green stuff pads after a few hundred miles of normal driving, then 10 hard stops going from 60 to 20. As cheap as rotors are now days and having had past issues with pad slaps, I always fit new rotors to...

Looks good. I realized after using a torque wrench on my plugs after years of not, that spark plugs require next to no torque.

I’ve gotta stop panicking buying. I finally got my last hoarding stock down to just a few jugs, but now it’s where it was before. No $5 jugs like in years past but plenty of cheap oil to be had. Lots of Valvoline and 3 yrs worth of redline for the wife’s car and at least that in RP for my other...

I spray the maf every spring which is also when I change the filter. With my cars design, I don’t even have to remove it. Easy cheap maintenance.