$270! Please advise where you took your car to? I would really love to fix mine. I took it to a GM garage and it cost around $300 for them to just figure out what was wrong and I think they wanted 500 - 600 to fix it. However much it was, I was still in school and couldn't swing it at the time. It's been a couple years, but it sounds just like the issue you had. I just remember my dad saying- you have breaks.. just not anti-lock breaks.. (in the most nonchalant way)

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