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So here's the result.dirtydirtydiesel wrote:So nearly three weeks ago I jumped in to go to work, reversed of the drive as normal until I went to go forward, The rear brakes were locked solid
Draged her arse back onto the drive I went to work on my bike
When I got home I jacked her up & wipped the wheels off O.M.G what a mess
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I know Markmarkw wrote:If you don't mind me saying, the first set of pics show a shocking lack of maintenance....
The second set restores my faith in the home mechanic! Nice Job
, I've only had the car for four months & I knocked the price down partly due to the state of the rear brakes. , say's a lot for main steelers eh!. ) SOLD I've sorted the airbag light ) run's for cover Captain, I haven't painted the disc's they come like that, their Pagid & it's a anti-corrosion coating which is also supposed to help with bedding inCaptain Jack wrote:What did you paint the disk (disc?) with?
, . ) SOLD I've sorted the airbag light ) run's for cover oldskool, I think the main common prob here is down to a lack of routeen maintinanceoldskoolskool wrote:Seems to be a common problem with these cars, just done mine including cables, but must admit I'm a little jealous as I didn't have enough time to paint my shields :-[ nice job there.
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, I read about lot's of people complaining that 406 hand brakes are week but mine is now unmoveable on four click's & I have yet to bed the shoes in to the drum's 
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, & on finding out that it would cost me in the region of £250 for two back plates & two wheel bearing / hub assembly's. . ) SOLD I've sorted the airbag light ) run's for cover . . ) SOLD I've sorted the airbag light ) run's for cover I counter that as long as your brakes can fit inside your wheels, there is no such thing as too big a brake, you want as much braking ability and heat absorption as possible, in the unlikely event that you need to do several hard stops in succession. You can never have brakes that are too powerful, as long as they're set up to let you modulate braking force correctly. There is such a thing as over-boosted brakes, but that's mostly because it's an easy way to make brakes feel more powerful and secure. They're so much harder to modulate and make it harder to stop the car softly instead of jerking to a halt. So big beefy hardware, big rotors and big multiple piston calipers? Yes please. Artificially over-boosted brakes? No thanks.steve_earwig wrote:I reckon there's a trend to use too big a brake on cars these days just let the ABS/TC sort it out (it does seem daft to use the same brake across the range so you have the same set up as a V6) so, unless you hoon around like a nutter they just don't get hot enough to vaporise any water/condensation and end up in a worse state than, umm, the US.
