XPost: alt.home.repair   
   From: bashley101@gmail.com   
      
   On 03/03/2022 09:51 PM, Michael Trew wrote:   
   > On 3/3/2022 17:38, The Real Bev wrote:   
   >>   
   >> Only once -- the very first time I drove down a mountain road -- did my   
   >> brakes get too hot to stop as quickly as I wanted. Lesson learned.   
   >   
   > That's a pretty rare occurrence these days with disc brakes; many cars   
   > now have rear disc brakes also.  When I first drove a car (recently)   
   > with 4 wheel manual drum brakes, I quickly learned why people   
   > (especially older drives) teach you to pulse the brakes on steep hills.   
      
   1950 Olds 88.  Did they even have disks then?  I really should have   
   known better, but I'd never driven a mountain road before.  I was lucky.   
      
   Later on I drove a car with brake problems.  I still pulse the brakes,   
   mainly to make sure they still work before I NEED to use them.  Some   
   habits just don't die.   
      
   --   
   Cheers, Bev   
      "A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person   
       or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even   
       possibly incurring losses."                       -- C.M.Cipolla   
      
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