Thanks Taterstein

The baby wagon has been putting off a big shimmy when I get on the brakes heading down Kenosha Pass so it was time for a brake job. Three months ago.
We also took the baby wagon up to Twin Lakes over the holidays to have lunch with some friends and I could not get the van up the snow packed and icy hill to our friends house. I got a running start at the hill a couple of times only to have the tires start spinning. Once the spinning started we started sliding....BACKWARDS down the hill. Things got a little exciting after a couple of tries but luckily nothing got bent. So, we ended up having to park at the bottom of the hill and got shuttled up to the house for lunch. EMBARRASSING!!
She needed a new pair of shoes AND brakes. Oh, GREAT!!

H decided for me that I was going to take the van to Denver and get all this done during my weekly visit. The good news is that one of my best buddies, Taterstein Quimbowitz has a knack for knowing how to, "stretch a buck".
He knew a guy that knew a guy at Discount Tire and that saved me around $50-$70 bucks on the new GoodYears. Then we did some calling around to Honda, NAPA, CarQuest and a few other parts places for rotors and brake pads. Everyone wanted $240 a pair for the rotors. That was killing me. So he kept calling until the guy at CarQuest had them for $90 a pair. For the exact same rotors. That's a $150 savings!! I went ahead and bought the pads so we could change them while we had the rig torn apart. I know you can get the rotors machined but then you have to take it to a brake shop and it seems to me that those guys always find something else and want to rip people off.

Tater was good enough to pick up the parts that afternoon and after I got back to his house that evening we pulled the van into his garage, threw on some overalls and got to work. An hour and a half later we had given the baby wagon a complete brake job, given her a test drive and I had saved well over $250. I am fortunate to have such good friends that are not afraid to get their hands dirty and help a buddy. Thanks Tater!!