How do you manage to wear them so quickly? I have never managed to wear out a set of pads on a car yet and I do about
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13 years ago
Are these car brakes worn?
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13 years ago
No chance of that. It's like an MOT - that only says the car passed on that day. Not that everything will be fine for the next year. As they can have no crystal ball to say how far the car will be driven in the next year or how it will be driven.
Sadly in general garages are more likely to err on the side that makes them money than care a damn about safety. It really is about time something was done about this. Although just what I dunno.
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13 years ago
The Austin 1800 used to loosen one driveshaft (nearside) which eventually wrecked the splines. A left hand thread on this would have sorted it.
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13 years ago
Another useful way to pollute the air for others as it will be using fuel but not burning it.
What makes you think its the car's fault?
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13 years ago
That's what most BMWs use. And have pad wear indicators. Don't most modern cars? Even my 25 year old SD1 has.
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13 years ago
Just what Jag was this? 'Real' Jags - before Ford took them over - were overweight and although had a high top speed rather sluggish in acceleration.
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13 years ago
Assisted by a sack of cement in the "boot"
The water pumps gave out and they took Leprosy.
Apart from that ...
Derek
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13 years ago
Yes, the car that slowed down at steady throttle opening.
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13 years ago
harry gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:
It seems that at least one doesn't know that it's only once you've learnt how to pass the driving test that you start to learn how to drive properly.
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13 years ago
And many people go through their driving career and still end up without a clue on the workings of a car.
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13 years ago
about £100 is typical.
Less if you bypass the AAS etc and find someone local.
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13 years ago
XK8/XKR.
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Most people.
Most people have no idea what the car they drive will actually do, performance wise. They bimble along at some rate assuming they are nowhere near the limit. But since they have no idea where the limit is, they don't actually know, till something happens.
Ignorance is bliss.
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13 years ago
I passed my driving test in 1971. I undertook my most recent piece of driver training on the 29th June.
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We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember harry saying something like:
Well, if that's the way you drive, we certainly know to avoid you.
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We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember The Natural Philosopher saying something like:
Eh well, that's the risk you take if un-covered by recovery. Coughing up a hundred quid is cheaper than losing the car to a motorway recovery yard with extortionate storage rates. I don't bother with recovery hereabouts, as the back roads I'm always on have plenty of places to leave the vehicle and come back to it with a tractor. No motorways in my neck of the woods.
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13 years ago
Thats the spirit!
When the freelander fuel pump went from 'intermittent' to 'total sulk' I phoned round everywhere to get it towed in to have a new one fitted. The AA and RAC wanted about 120 for a straight tow. If I joined, then phoned up two days later it would have been 80 quid or something, but they wouldn't pick-up from home..That was the 180 quid service or something..
Anyway, I phoned around and found a chap who would do it for 60 quid.
once in 15 years, its not worth joining the RAC.
cheaper to pay.
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13 years ago
Always been my philosophy
Think how much I've saved in nearly 40 years of driving
Bet denboi has the whole 5 star plan
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13 years ago
By driving normally.
You must be driving almost entirely on motorways then.
And even then, that seems exceptional. When I have looked it up previously, it has always been suggested that "normal" life for a set of front brake pads is around 15000 - 25000 miles, depending on the style and type of driving.
That is quite a wide range, and there will always be people outside even that, but more than three times the upper end of the "normal" range seems very high.
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13 years ago
I have managed 50,000 miles on a set of pads , 99% of milage was motorway , then again on the same vehicle i have managed 8000 miles on a set of pads driving in london