[ROVERNET - UK] And now, let's upset P6 lovers..REALLY CRAPPY BRAKES??.

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I gather the whole backend drops out easily on later Jags.

PVS

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From: "phing" <phing at videotron.ca>
To: <agale at iinet.net.au>; <rovernet at lyris.ccdata.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 2:56 PM
Subject: Re: [ROVERNET - UK] And now,let's upset P6 lovers..REALLY CRAPPY 
BRAKES??.


> HI
> I've yet to plumb the depths of RVW's rear brakes . However I know they 
> can't possibly be as bad as those on an E type Jaguar . These combine Mr 
> Girling's most Mickey Mouse design and crappulous execution  with total in 
> accesibility from above , below and either side .It took me 3 days to 
> change the parking brake pads and rebuild the " self adjusting " 
> mechanism. Yes , I know they shouldn't wear since they are only used when 
> the disc is at rest , but the friction material  came unbonded and fell 
> off .!!!However the E type is still looked on as THE British car of all 
> time, mostly by people who have never owned a 40 year old E type !!
> Cheers
> Patrick
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Alan Gale" <agale at iinet.net.au>
> To: <rovernet at lyris.ccdata.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 9:28 PM
> Subject: Re: [ROVERNET - UK] And now, let's upset P6 lovers...
>
>
> Look who's gone into the cupboad and got out their best anoraks!!
>
> Considering the relative rarity of the job, the fact that they work well 
> and now have been doing so for several decades and how lying on one's back 
> under the car is perhaps one of the last real escapes a family man has 
> left over the weekend ...
>
> Is this all we have to whinge about?
>
>
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