[jsgold]

No problem on the ranting, these cars will make you do that for sure. My point was that the front brakes have a lot more pressure on them - period, as the rear ones do little work by comparison, and thus wear out faster. As for self adjusting, well, I have had little luck with ANY of the three similar cars (91 corsica, 94 Beretta, 89 Beretta) doing this right, so I have to ajust them myself from time to time. Shoot, my 91 Corsica(bought this car new, now has 181K) can get well over 100K on a set of rear shoes as they simply do not wear as much. We live on a big hill and go thru brakes failry quickly. I would (AND DO) replace the pads with top notch pads, and the cheapest rotors I can get from Advance, and go on. Have not had one turned in 7 years. As to the caliper, I have no way to know who I am talking to. A lot of folks that come here have never changed their oil before let alone look under their car, so I only mentioned that since you said the car eats up rotors. No offense meant, just hard to know who is on the other end! The bottom line is, yes these cars are rough on front brakes, best thing to help them is periodically adjusting the rears so they do some work, and put up with them. Better rotors won't do much good in my opinion. Self adjusters on these cars simply do not work well. Still these are darn good cars.