Car Brakes

On Wednesday I had a very productive day planned.  Unfortunately my plans all fell apart when the car started shaking very badly.  I loaded the girls into the car and we went to the grocery store.  This had to be my first stop after picking up Watson from his sitter since we needed food in the house after being away for a week but I also needed fabric softener before I could start the laundry.  As we were nearing the crocery store the car started to shake.  It was very strange but since I was already near the store we stopped and went in.  We got back inthe car to head home and I couldn't believe how much the car was shaking. I knew it had something to do with the brakes since it only happened when I had to use the brakes but I also feared that maybe the tire was going to come shooting off at some point.  IT was very stressful to drive the car like this with the kids in the car with me.  I dropped the groceries off at home (since it was on my way) and headed to the dealer who had done work on our brakes in October.  At first eh man told me they would work on it tomorrow so I asked him if it was safe to drive.  He took it for a short drive with us in the car and his immediate response was "very bad, very bad".  They took it in then  to have a look at it.  I told him they had worked on the brakes in October.  Apparently though they had only replaced a part of the brake and he showed me what was wrong...the rotor was corroded... which was a different part from what they fixed in the fall.  He told me to pick it up on Thursday afternoon.  The nice thing about this dealer is they give a max cost for the repairs so you know what to expect.  With the way the car was shaking I was expecting a max cost of 20,000Kc or more so I was pleasantly surprised at a max cost of 6000KC ($320).   That tells you had bad the car was shaking if I thought $320 was a relief!!  After the dealer the girls and I had took the tram up to the baguette shop for lunch and then took the bus home.  As we were walking down the road I realized I left my house keys with my car keys at the dealer.  The dealer is only about an 8 minute drive from our house it would take us about an hour to get there on the bus which means two hours round trip.  Since it was a beautiful day we decided to just play in the yard for three hours for Jason to come home rather than spend all the time on public transportation.  Needless to say my productive day didn't happen given I was locked out of the house until 5:30pm but at least I got to enjoy some sunshine.  We picked the car up on Thursday and they showed me the corroded rotors now that they were off our car and they were, in fact, extremely corroded and flaking apart.  I guess a major piece had flaked off on the way to the grocery store which was why it was shaking so bad all of a sudden.  I'm glad they are fixed and I can feel safe driving our car again.