XPost: comp.mobile.android, misc.phone.mobile.iphone
From: nuh-uh@nope.com
On 2022-05-11 3:25 p.m., sms wrote:
> On 5/11/2022 5:47 AM, NY wrote:
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>> 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.
Some brake compounds aren't compatible with what came before and the new
pads can do that.
>
> 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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