Brake Rant
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01-15-2007, 01:08 AM
Brake Rant
I have been fairly careful about cleaning the wheels of my V70 but a combination of weather and other duties kept me away from them for about 4 weeks. I performed the needed service yesterday - they were filthy but more importantly, they have begun to show the same symptoms that plagued the wheels on my Mercedes - little black specs, presumably collections of brake dust that have etched their way into the surface! Nothing that I had at hand (that I was confident would not destroy the clearcoat) would remove them.
Between the Mercedes and the Volvo, I drove a Toyota Sequoia for nearly two years. This formidable (3 ton) vehicle stopped very well with no squeal, swerving or lock-up and it didn't befoul the wheels with corrosive black dust in a matter of miles after cleaning!
When will the tunnel visioned brake engineers that seem to inhabit YUUROPP wake up to the fact that there is technology that doesn't squeal, doesn't produce moutains of filth and what dust is produced does not immediately become a corrosive bath on exposure to water!
Although I fear the damage has been done, I am definitley looking to Japan for my next set of pads.
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