Jul 2, 2008, 03:59 AM
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I've had a few cars in my time, and they ran fine until old age caught up with them, and I didn't have the money to repair them.
But the worse thing that ever happened, and scared the hell out of me to boot, was the brakes failing in my 86 Nova. I was coming down a steep hill, and suddenly, I had no brakes and smoke was coming from my front driver's side tire.
Emergency brakes are wonderful.
That's how I stopped my car at the bottom. I just had my brakes worked on right before this. Well, I got that car back to the same mechanic, and he tells me the piston jammed, causing the brake fluid to leak out, and the brakes to fail. He asked me who worked on it last, I told him he had, and I got free repairs.
My brake fluid light never came on, so I never knew there was a problem.
That had to be the worse thing that ever happened to me.
Now I drive a 97 Chevy Lumina, and I love it.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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