Okay well long story short i took my sti to a certain shop, which will remain unsaid, and i believe they did a horrible job with my brakes. and during the last snow storm about 2 weeks ago on a Saturday, i was involved in a crash. my brakes were not responsive during the collision. I'm trying to go after the shop for all the damages and stuff. I find out later this week if the car is totaled or not. Apparently its dependent on the insurance taking the car to subaru and seeing if there was damage to the engine, ( i rear-ended someone else, and scratched a limo
) fortunately i know better then to go fast in snow, even with AWD and i was going about 5-10 mph but still managed to get my car OWNED! the other cars where fine, small dent on a legacy and scratch on a limo from my side mirror. But subaru is also going to determine if the brakes were bad, and then the insurance is going to go after the shop and ill file a separate claim/lawsuit against them.
still sucks tho, i loved my car.
but i'm going to buy it back from the insurance and get all my parts off it and probably part it out.
but thats the reason i was asking those questions. the insurance shop said they couldn't check the brakes them selves cause the car needed to be on. yup