You have a passion for timing belt repair
Never put off getting your brakes checked! The brake shoes will start scratching the rotors if the pads are too worn down. Now that pad replacement, which would not have cost much, has become a pad and rotors replacement. Other reasons also exist for you to get brakes checked. It is very dangerous if brake lines on a car stop working. No one under any circumstances should be driving with a broken brake line, even if it is just the back brakes.