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volunteer said

Thank-you for your nice replies - so much better than the 'boots on ribs' response I always get from one particular responder. I suppose he has more than my 50 years of experience so I'll just stay out of it. Main topic was for you to get the brake problem solved and it will likely (hopefully) happen, as lots of other members on this site. Good luck and stay safe. :)
Oh - - and, I love your 'avatar'!

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“boots on ribs” ? :drama:

Good grief man. I simply said that the car was clearly not factory, so narrowly considering what it should or shouldn’t have from factory in this case isn’t really relevant. The car in question could easily have either type of caliper.

I never said anything negative about you, and what I wrote was not pointed or mean. You’re the one that’s taking a simple correction personally. It’s not my fault that assuming which kind of caliper the car has is a bad idea, since neither type is original to the car and both are available in abundance.

As for experience, I’ll say this as a general observation. I have met people with 50 years of experience that have gotten by doing things the wrong way the entire time. I have also met people with 5 years of experience in a field that I would consider experts. Making the same mistakes for a long time without learning from them isn’t useful, but you can still call it experience. Some people can learn in a year what takes others 10, it’s not a level playing field.

I have also found that the people that are the most vocal about their years of experience are usually not the ones that have gotten the most out of it. Which is why they demand respect for their years instead of letting their knowledge speak for itself.