Date:         Mon, 7 Mar 2005 13:38:02 -0800
Reply-To:     Leon <korkwood@WSHOST.NET>
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From:         Leon <korkwood@WSHOST.NET>
Subject:      Re: [Syncro] Why SA big brakes saved my ass today
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Better and a lot cheaper Audi turbo twin caliper brakes
Leon
86 Syncro

On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 13:29:20 -0800, Jon Brown <jbrown510@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> 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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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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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