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

[phing]

Yes corrosion is a real problem !
Patrick 
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From: "Netspace" <vmitps at netspace.net.au>
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Subject: Re: [ROVERNET - UK] And now,let's upset P6 lovers..REALLY CRAPPY BRAKES??.


>I gather the whole backend drops out easily on later Jags.
> 
> PVS
> 
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> From: "phing" <phing at videotron.ca>
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> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 2:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [ROVERNET - UK] And now,let's upset P6 lovers..REALLY CRAPPY 
> BRAKES??.
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> 
>> 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
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>> 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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