Need new brake pads and rotors on our CR-V. Mechanic says it's $400 for pads, and $800-1k if we also need new rotors.

I've done this several times on the old CR-V, and it's ridiculously cheaper than that - full pads and rotors are less than $200. But when I've done it, I did them at a relative's house. Said relative is a massive dick, and we've learned he's a racist as well, so I decided to skip all that bullshit, and picked up what I needed.

Can't get the lugs to break. Get help with that from my neighbor.

My 2-ton jack is shot out of the box, the moment it lifts the tire off the ground it goes PSSSSSH and lets it back down. The whole car is just over two tons, and I'm just trying to do one tire, so I know the jack is rated for this. Get a buddy to bring his beefier jack over.

Can't get the tire off. Get my buddy to come back and show me that I need to karate kick the thing.

Taking the two screws off that hold the rotor to the hub, I completely strip the head on one, and then proceed to shatter the impact driver bit inside the other one, and can't get it out.

I file the shard of the driver head down, put the tire back on, and put everything back in the boxes. Proceed to drive the car around the block to make sure it's driveable, then eat gobs of Chinese takeout.

Looks like I'm paying someone anyway. At least I had Chinese takeout handy, I can't fuck that up.