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www.tirerack.com has lots of useful info on tires. Decide what criteria - including price - are important to you. You will find charts there that compare many many tires on many many criteria. They won't have the brands and models you'll find at your local Fleet Farm or Farm and Fleet. But those places also have decent enough tires without the major brand names. "Cheap" is a relative term. I have been happy with Bridgestone Turanza LSTs on my Honda Civic. They are far from expensive.

I don't know your car specifically, but the disc brakes I've worked on all have something like an anti-rattle spring to reduce this problem. It is sometimes a thin multi-bend steel spring wire, or a springy thing made from a narrow steel band. Sometimes they break and don't work any more. If the installer of new pads didn't have a new one handy, they might have just slapped in the pads without it. Many disc brake replacement instructions call for a thin coat of brake grease on the edges of the caliper opening wheer the pads almost touch. That grease may muffle the click. The goo that's put on the metal sides of the pads may or may not do anything for this. It's meant to eliminate vibration and squealing, not the click of pads hitting the caliper opening. I agree it's probably not anything but an annoyance. Things like this are one reason many people do their own brake work - you know what's been done and whom to blame!

http://www.tirerack.com has extensive comparison charts to help you make a decision. I agree with those in snow country who have a set of winter and of summer wheels/tires. Except for the cost of 4 steel wheels, it costs no more over the long run to have excellent performance all year long, assuming you do the seasonal switchover yourself. It takes about an hour, twice a year.

avk and jim, I think you've led me to the answer: It's my dad's car and I am not familiar with it. I didn't know about pushing on the stalk (I think you mean push it toward the steering column) to run the front washer motor. The non-functioning 4-way flashers: it seemed to me that no tail lights were on, but small front lights definitely were on, despite any position of the light switch or ignition switch. I have no repair manual and the owners manual does not answer this question: where is the flasher for the 4-way emergency lights?

95 Legacy wagon: Front windshield washer doesn't work - motor does not run when the right stalk is pulled back. Applied 12V from the battery to the motor and it works and sprays fine. Connections clean, wires look OK. 4-way flashers don't work: turning them on, the front parking lights come on, but there is no flashing. With time limited, I took the plastic off the steering column, looked at the switch and used electrical contact cleaner spray. No diff. Could these two electrical problems be related? Is a circuit diagram for 95 Legacy wagon available on line?