Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 13:29:20 -0800
Reply-To: Jon Brown <jbrown510@GMAIL.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Jon Brown <jbrown510@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: [Syncro] Why SA big brakes saved my ass today
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So you bought Veronica's blue high top... awesome van.
FWIW, my SA brakes saved my but a few blocks from that same location. When
someone turning right from Macarthur northbound onto Main eastbound decided
to stop as abruptly as her Mercedes would allow, smack dab in the middle of
a protected right hand turn... I missed her bumper by less than 2 inches...
braking and turning were never the vangons strongpoint... let alone braking
and turning at the same time :)
IMHO, SA brakes and headlight relays should be a mandatory upgrade for all
vanagons...
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From: <jahsurf@aol.com>
To: <Syncro@yahoogroups.com>; <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 10:44 PM
Subject: [Syncro] Why SA big brakes saved my ass today
>
> So I'm in Newport today on the 73 toll road heading home to Laguna.
Driving
> around 60 and in the right lane is a line of cars waiting to exit to
Macarthur-
> they're moving around 20. So this lady in front of me in Ford
Excurspedition
> decides to put her ABS to work so she can get over into the exit lane --
but
> no one lets her in. Shiiiiiiiiit, I say, slamming on the brakes and
bringing a
> center console-mounted vanilla latte to rest on my foot. My
adventurewagen
> topped full westy syncro goes from zoot to naught in a pounding heartbeat.
No
> fade, no squeals, no pulls to the right or left, no wobbles afterward from
> overheated and now warped front rotors. Thanks Veronica Fraga for
installing these
> things before I bought yer van, and thanks for installing that industrial
> strength horn. Scared the bejeeezus out of Newport lady blabbing on
cellphone in
> said Excurspedition. I think these brakes saved my ass and saved that lady
> from getting a set of bull bumpers up hers. If I'm not mistaken the brakes
came
> from Volkscafe.
> Dixon
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