I've had a shimmy (35mph, which is weird) in my front suspension for a while now. I'm now almost sure it's the rear 4 subframe bushings, which were completely rotten out. I've had it on jackstands for quite a while. I replaced the rear transmisson mount, reinforced the frame (which was super rusty ...

I have a pad that wore down all the way and ate into a front rotor (the pads wore unevenly - the inboard pad without the little sensor tab wore down first). most of the way through fixing that but I have to go get a torque wrench that will go up to 137 foot-lb.

In addition to front brakes, I have ...

I've also got a bad bad driver-side boot. I don't think it's too bad yet (no symptoms, wasn't there a few months ago). I'm not going to replace it immediately, but I'm looking at what to get right now.
The axle was replaced when I got it (~60k miles ago), but I don't know what brand it was replaced ...

I've been lurking for a while and finally had a question about my 01 SLE that I couldn't solve myself by either asking mechanics in the family or reading the manual for the previous generation.

I've found the forum to be super helpful, especially the common problems thread and the techinfos.

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I was about to jack up my bonne to investigate a noise in the brakes in the driver's front so I put the parking brake on. I put a fair amount of pressure on it, there was a pop, and then the pedal went much further. I blocked up the rear wheels and had a look. Still debating whether to do the job ...