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Help - Massive Brake Fade Issue!

Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 4:49 am
by SIR-VRX
I have some massive brake fade issues on my car. Here is a description.

Link

Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 5:32 am
by Josh_Emerton
Houston, we may have a problem.

Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 5:35 am
by SIR-VRX
Did you look through the rest of the thread? There are other pictures of other cars with similar problems

Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 8:33 am
by billyboy
:roll: how the hell did they let it get that far?

Just this morning I was travelling behind a Civic for a few k's that had a dead flat tyre on the driver rear side.

Finally caught up with the guy at a set of red lights & knocked on his window & pointed it out to him, didnt seem phased & just took off as normal & kept driving to where the hell he was going :?

Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 8:44 am
by LZY_EYE
I will go for a walk at lunch time, and hear so many cars down to the brake wear markers.... I can't believe people don't maintain their cars!!!

SIR-VRX, you should be ashamed of yourself... I expected you to maintain your vehicle properly.... and when did you paint your car a different colour!!!! :P Give yourself an uppercut LMAO ;)

Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 10:42 am
by blade888
lol owner of that car.... FAIL...

mmm those brakes smell of fail........ epic fail....

Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 5:34 pm
by jamez707
rust mutch?

Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 12:28 am
by exaltd
?!?

I certainly hope none of us encounter such an issue on our Japanese made Lancers...

Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 10:05 am
by SIR-VRX
American car technology is only of recent years catching up to the rest of the world...

They've had to as the Japanese cars are taking over lol

One good example of old technology still being used is right there. Look closely and see if anybody can pick it. HINT: It's not the brakes. The person who finds what I'm on about gets 500 forum points and +2 rep.

Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 10:24 am
by Graham
jeeez, that's crazy!

Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 11:16 am
by tadz0rz
Is it the tire thats holdin up the car in the first picture? lol

Or maybe its the frame rail thats going over the wheel?

lol just spitballin here..

Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 11:34 am
by mitch.honey
thats getting everything out of your brakes

Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 4:21 pm
by SIR-VRX
tadz0rz wrote:Or maybe its the frame rail thats going over the wheel?

You're pretty close, I'll give it to you...

Until recently a lot of American cars still used Body-on-Frame construction, which is what our utes, and most real 4x4s use. There is a metal frame that has the suspension and drive train mounted on it, and the body is seperatley bolted to that.

Old technology suited to 4x4s, but not passenger cars!

Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 4:31 pm
by tadz0rz
Wewwww!!! Seemed a bit strange because when sound deadening my car, i never noticed anything like that lol