well said,no need for insults in this type of thread.
Too right.
My TD5 Disco has amazing brakes. Two and a half tons of Disco, and I am always checking what's behind in case I need to slam on the anchors.
Not long after I got the car, on the M8 motorway in rushhour traffic at about 60 mph a crazy woman in a Mini Cooper thing overtook me fast on the inside, dived in front of me, and then realised the cars in front of her were braking hard.
She stood on her anchors, and I thought "Bye-Bye Mini" and planted both feet to the floor, clutch and brake together.
My ABS rattled, and the Disco stopped comfortably clear of the Mini. I was astonished. I really believed there was no chance of missing the Mini. All traffic stopped. The man behind me got out of his car and ran past me and dragged the crazy woman out of her car. He was yelling at her that she was crazy, and what the Hell did she think she was doing! She must have carved him up too. All she could do was the scream back she was in a hurry to get home ...
But the Disco brakes were amazing. They were also cold. Fast driving and lots of braking heats up the discs, and it heats up the pads, and eventually the friction co-efficient drops a lot. This is the start of brake fade. If the heat builds up too much the fluid (and especially any water in the fluid) in the calipers may BOIL, thus making squashy bubbles, and the brakes FADE completely. The pedal hits the floor. No brakes.
Keep the brakes COOL. Drive intelligently. Your brakes are designed to give you ONE reliable stop from high speed, without over-heating. If you keep trying, you WILL cook your brakes on any 4x4. They are not designed for boy-racer driving styles.
Sermon Over, but someone needed it.
CharlesY
