Well all those are good but not so noobish as the story i'm about to tell you. When i was 17 my brakes started failing. 1st they were getting sqeeky, the sign for "get brakes checked" Anyway's...
they finally went out on me, i had to stop the car by easily stepping down onto the emergency brake til the car stopped. it worked,but had to be timed correctly.
At the time i did'nt have the money to fix it cause i thought that it would be too expensive for the part & the labor. So i drove around the city without brakes for 4 months...even the highway.
turns out i asked one of my friends and he said i could get it fixxed by getting a used part from the junkyard. As i got the part i needed, it turned out to only cost me $15.00 dollars. and i was able to put it in my self...what a noobasaurous rex.