Two years with brake pad light on.

[cudaspaz]

I was working on a customers car at his home, and a delivery guy comes by and asked me for a business card and told me he had an E-430 that had the brake pad light on and he told me he would call me when he was ready.

Well, two years go by and he calls me to come to his home to give him a quote because he had never changed his pads out since he saw me that day.

I get to his home and inspect the vehicle.

I really should have taken pictures, but I will explain what I saw.

Both fron brake rotors were worn down on the inside of the disks all the way to the fins.
There were only slivers of metal left where the pads should be meeting the disks.

The inboard pad on the pass side no longer had any backing plate left and the caliper piston was touching what was left of the rotor.

The drivers side inboard pad had a sliver of backing plate left.

At this point ,both calipers were leaking brake fluid from the pistons.

I can only imagine what kind of noise this vehicle was making while braking.

The guy was letting his cute little 90 pound wife drive the car like this.

They both should be ashamed of themselves.

I gave him a reasonable repair quote and never heard back from him.

The kicker was this guy does not have enough money to repair the brakes on his wife's car, but he had just moved into a $600,000 home.

Go figure.