Originally posted by dliske
While I might be able to come up with a reason for the caliper being replaced in your scenario, what was wrong with the master cylinder? Sounds a bit like overkill (ripoff) by the mechanic.
Basically in my old car I was actually out to sabotage it/myself for personal reasons. I knew the brakes were bad and I kept riding on em anyways.
They heated up so bad that the rotors had huge cuts in them, the actual pads were gone and what was left of the metal were falling apart, the calipers got so hot that they must've warped or something cuz i couldn't get the remaining parts of the pads off, it was like they were fused together or something :dunno:
The master cylinder was leaking real bad so I'm not sure if that was part of me screwing the brakes up or not :dunno: But I had to get that replaced.
It was nasty
But I'm better now
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