Tested the brakes on the P5, they seemed to have gotten spongier, but the pedal doesn't seem to keep sinking, so it's probably not the master cylinder.
Got the car aligned at NTB yesterday (under my 3-year alignment warranty plan), with mediocre results. I asked for zero toe all around and he was "of course, we gonna get it all zero'd out!" What do you know, the steering wheel is somewhat crooked.
The guy went outside in the dark, shined a light at my tires and told me that my center tread is all gone (false), my tires are at about 4/32nds (they are more like 5/32nds, but he just eyeballed it) and that the legal limit for tread depth in MA is 3/32nds (false, it's 2/32nds). The told me that with the coming wet season, I better get some new tires.
Then, when I decided to humor him and just see what kind of prices and selection NTB has, I asked him to run my stock size 195/50/16. Then when only 4 tires came up (as expected), I asked him to run a slightly wider size at 205/50/16. When I said 205, he went and put "55" in the aspect ratio to compensate for the width increase... except that's wrong and makes it bigger.
So basically, NTB Waltham, the guy uses half-truths to try to sell me tires, the techs don't give a crap and do half-assed alignment jobs. I guess the new part this visit is I haven't had the sales attempt happen before. Techs not caring is normal. I pity the regular joes going there to get work done or tires mounted.
I don't even want to think about the times they told me my RX-8 could not be aligned and that it was too low for the lift to change tires. And the time they told me I needed drop spindles to fix my alignment. DROP SPINDLES!