Re: Driving With Two Brakes

Letterman made the point here:

> Brakes are one of the easier things to fix on a car.  Go spend the $20
> to buy an auto repair manual, spend another $50 to $100 on brake shoes
> and cylinders, and fix it yourself.

The car repair shop wanted $110 to make the repair. If the above is the 
approximate cost of the parts, and if they charge something like $70/hr
for 
labor, then that tells me that there's no way they were planning on 
replacing the shoes, but only the cylinders. Which raises one of two 
possibilities:

Either: 1) This shop doesn't know what they're doing, since they weren't 
going to replace the shoes.

Or: 2) The amount leaking on the shoes is so minimal that they didn't feel

the shoes needed to be replaced (which, if that were the case, raises the 
question of whether their assertion that the emergency brake wasn't
working 
because of fluid leaking onto the brakes was correct in the first place).

Either way, very curious that the total cost was only $110.