What is a reasonable repair estimate for replacement of the rear brake assembly on a 1999 Subaru Forester?
Apr 01, 2009 by MMT | Posted in Subaru
I admit I'm a Subi newbie, having owned this car for nearly a year.
My mechanic gave me a parts and labor estimate of $780.00, but lowered it to just under $500.00 after I said this was a little high. They quoted me $274.00 just for the
You're probaly looking at about $500 - $600 dollars. That's for rear brake shoes, rear brake wheel cylinders and rear brake drums. It takes about 2 1/2 - 3 hours
cyrus | Apr 01, 2009
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An assortment of beef stew, beef stroganoff, chicken teriyaki….well, you get the comparison.
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Although we haven’t stocked up Elaine’s car (or the screaming red demon either, come to think of it) my excuse is pretty simple:В We don’t go anywhere.В And, when we do, the range upwards of 30-40 miles which is within easy ham radio (or cell phone) quick response from whoever’s at the ranch.
However we’re planning a vacation now, and as a result, I’ve been pondering what’s the most efficient what to ‘gear up’ a car so as to be ready for anything that may come along?
The first – and most obvious- is to travel with other folks from the around your area who are going on similar trips.В Convoying just makes sense.
The second part of major trip planning seems like it ought to be turning the car into a mobile survival platform, so that task is now underway.В Looking at food, water, basically wants to have 7-days worth of supplies in the car and enough other goods that if we ever bogged down somewhere along the way, we could get back to the ranch.
This is a far out kind of exercise, but what IF we were on a cross-country trip and there was an EMP attack on the country?В We have no way of testing our electronics ‘hardening’ of the car’s electronics (which should work in theory) but even if you’ve got a car that runs, something like am EMP event would almost certainly shut down the grid such that whatever you have in your gas tank would be IT until you could find a gas station with an emergency generator.В Oh, and it would need to have been hardened, too.
Which gets me back to trip planning.В What’s reasonable prepping?В Oh, sure, joining Triple A is a no-brainer.В And their travel planning services are most excellent, I hear.В
But what about some “out of left field” kinds of event...
