Advice needed on strange noise in my car?

[michael2k6]

oops just read the rest of the thread. If you get brakes replaced, you should replace the brakes on the same axle - so either front or back - but the bearings just replace them as they go. But if the car's got high mileage or been ragged around and a bearings going the chances might be the others arent far off.

 

A seized brake caliper should be an easy enough fix too, you just have to take it off, whip the pads out (change them if theyre gone from the brake being stuck on - on change on both sides), put another caliper on. Sometimes the pads will of ruined the disc, then you need discs and pads both sides and a new caliper on one, but you're still only looking at a couple of hours labour, it's the parts that are going to cost on that one. And of course bleeding the brakes after the new caliper.

 

Lots of this stuff is easy enough to do with a socket set and a haynes