10th Oct 2021, 00:36
Oh, so now you're saying that calipers "require" maintenance instead of being replaced as maintenance if or even when they fail. Glad you finally recognize the difference. Now we all can move on.
11th Oct 2021, 18:39
The slide pins need to be lubricated to prevent seizure. That’s maintenance. So you drive your vehicle until your brakes fail. Great.
11th Oct 2021, 19:18
Odd, I can’t find any Vibes with Toyota badges on them when I ran a Google search.
12th Oct 2021, 17:00
Well, if that's how you treat your vehicles, remind me never to buy one from you.
12th Oct 2021, 18:15
Really? You seriously don't know that the Pontiac Vibe was nothing but a rebadged TOYOTA Matrix? Wow.
13th Oct 2021, 15:24
My GM badge is going 89 mph on the Fountain Go Boat. Amazing 750 HP engine by land or sea.
14th Oct 2021, 15:11
Can't understand why Oct 9th 20:06 brought the Pontiac Vibe AKA Toyota Matrix back in the loop from other threads. What's next, a 93 Mexican built Celebrity?
17th Oct 2021, 02:50
Most cars are all good when they are new with a warranty. I had new company cars every 3 years for decades. A few were not. Like the Dodge Dynasty.
19th Oct 2021, 16:55
You know, even if you have to replace brake calipers for one reason or another it's not really that big of a deal. The ones on my truck eventually started leaking from the seals. Maybe because it's older, but re-manufactured calipers with new seals were just slightly more than a kit to rebuild the originals. It's not rocket science. It took me an hour or so to replace both. All cars can be repaired and kept on the road for as long as the owner wants. But a lot of people seem to be either unwilling or unable to do so, and thus why an awful lot of perfectly good cars and trucks get traded in on something new. So the above van has brake issues. For a few hundred dollars that can be fixed. Then it can be on its merry way for many more 1000's of miles.
9th Oct 2021, 15:15
Replacing brake calipers is a repair due to wear and tear or age. Still not a maintenance item when they can last throughout the vehicle's life span. And most of them do.