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From: scharf.steven@geemail.com
On 5/11/2022 5:47 AM, NY wrote:
> I wonder what effect that high temperature had on the pads once they
> were red hot. Would you want to ride in that car afterwards - would the
> pads have been made less effective? How hot do discs get if you descend
> a long hill (let's say a mile long, average 1:4 aka 25%) using brakes
> only. My wife remembers a friend descending such a hill (Porlock Hill in
> Devon, England) in a motor caravan which may have had a mixture of discs
> and drums. By the end of the hill, there was smoke coming from the
> wheels (brake pads, presumably) - the driver learned an important
> lesson: to engage a low gear on a long steep hill so there is a bit of
> transmission braking to supplement the normal friction braking.
Decades ago I replace the brake pads on a VW Rabbit (Golf in other
regions) with pads that I ordered online from JC Whitney, a mail-order
parts house. Descending a steep hill, in San Francisco, the pads glazed
over from the heat. The rotors were fine. Did another brake job
immediately, using high-quality pads from an import car parts store.
Unfortunately, in the U.S., not a lot of vehicle owners still do their
own car maintenance so the number of auto parts stores is greatly
reduced. In my town of 60,000 people we've lost all three of our auto
parts stores as well as a fourth that's just across the city boundary. I
now buy my oil at Costco or Walmart and I order my oil filters from a
dealer that sells OEM parts on eBay.
Two of our vehicles are hybrids and because of regenerative braking the
brakes last a very long time, easily more than 100K miles. On my old VWs
I had to do brake jobs every 25K-30K miles.
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