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   From: xenolith@optusnet.com.au   
      
   On 12/5/2022 8:25 am, 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.   
   >   
   > 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.   
      
   I'm up to 120,000 kilometres without any regenerative braking.   
      
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