What Are You Doing To/With Your Car Today?

BrianT said
Like a dumbass I waited until the hottest day of the year so far to polish my wheels. Turned out pretty good though. I need to put something on the polished aluminum to seal the metal? Before
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paste wax helps keep them clean, stuff just washes off.

I looked at the "grinding" rear brakes of my 2012 Grand Caravan. Pads were still 1/4" thick, no contact, no grooves in the rotor but I had a ~1mm lip where the pads stopped. Almost like the pads wore 1mm of iron off the rotors? So I ground the lip off with a flap wheel thinking that was making the noise and put new pads on. Wife says they still are audible so I ordered 2 new rotors from Rock. $12 each: they are $66 a piece locally! Ill get them Wed to install by friday for a 1900 mile road trip to Texas. Any chance I can compress the pistons without that special caliper piston screw thing? Just a hassle renting it again if I can compress the piston 2mm with something to make room for new rotor. Nice thing about the pad install, my boy did one side by himself along with a complete oil change! It was nice teaching him and the icing on the cake was when he asked me "Dad, how did you get so smart?" I told him if I didnt learn this stuff I couldn't drive.