Brake test => :eek:
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St. Jude Donor '07
Brake test => :eek:
Put the brakes to a good test today, and after many, MANY months of hunting gremlins put it in a hard stop. Wasn't a panic stop, just an agressive stop and locked up the wheels (I had forgotten how much stopping power it once had 
). Situation went like this: cruising down the street, three lanes in my direction, I'm in left lane. Lane stops moving pretty quickly (not sure why) and I step on the brake pretty hard. Wheels lock, screeching sound, but plenty of room between me and the car in front of me, just pressed it a little too hard. Girl behind me just about soiled herself at the sound 
). Situation went like this: cruising down the street, three lanes in my direction, I'm in left lane. Lane stops moving pretty quickly (not sure why) and I step on the brake pretty hard. Wheels lock, screeching sound, but plenty of room between me and the car in front of me, just pressed it a little too hard. Girl behind me just about soiled herself at the sound
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One of the disadvantages of ABS brakes is that when you really stand on the brakes, you don't get white smoke pouring out of the wheel wells accompanied by that horrible screeching sound. The white smoke/sound effects is really a good way of alerting other drivers.
I once absently started to run a red light many years ago. Drifting into the intersection with the white smoke/sound effects immediately make all the other cars stop.
With ABS, if the brake lights in front go on, you have no idea as to whether they just are resting their foot on the brake petal or if they are really standing on the brake.
I once absently started to run a red light many years ago. Drifting into the intersection with the white smoke/sound effects immediately make all the other cars stop.
With ABS, if the brake lights in front go on, you have no idea as to whether they just are resting their foot on the brake petal or if they are really standing on the brake.
Burning Brakes
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From: Santee CA
Originally Posted by Buffalo Dude
If you stack them like firewood you can fit 3-4 back there. 
Don't laugh, my sister and I used to fit in the back of my parents' C4 when we were 6 & 8 years old, back before seat belt laws were enforced. I remember getting shoehorned into the back for a long freakin' ride from Santee to Julian (about 45 min. - 1 hr. on back roads, following blue hairs who think that turnouts are ONLY to be used by RVs).
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