This is the stupidest thing. One of the big reasons I moved to Cambridge was so I wouldn't have to drive everywhere. My car's mileage stays low, I'm not taking up space on the roads, polluting the air, all that.
Yet--my car isn't happy.
Apparently if you don't drive your car every day---or in my case my 2000 Saab 93--the brake pads and rotors rust from lack of use. I just had them all replaced, costing me $560.
"Oh, I hear this all the time from my customers who don't drive every day," my Saab dealer tells me. True, a lot of cars just sit around "on call" while their owners walk and ride bikes around town. And every block had at least two or three that stayed buried under the snow all winter.
So what can I do? Drive the car more, she says. "If you drive it every day and pump the brakes, you'll scrape off the rust."
Before I put in a call to the Car Talk guys, anybody got any advice or ideas?
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