on 4/26/06 10:26 AM, Kim Brennan at kimbrennan@MAC.COM wrote: > Essential the philosophy promoted in the John Muir book "How to Keep > your Volkswagen Alive". Think of brakes negatively. Use them sparingly. > > My father is an adherent of that philosophy. He'd often get 100K > miles out of his brakes before they needed to be worked on. Mechanics > never could understand how he did it. A manual transmission > automobile can use the engine for slowing down much more effectively > than an automatic can. > But using your engine as a braking mechanism wears your engine out faster, so I would imagine that replacing your brake pads is a lot less expensive than replacing your engine? It seems to me that the older generation, myself & Muir included, was taught to down shift & keep the revs up, in part to save the brakes, but that is not good advice in today's world w/ self adjusting brakes, disk brakes, ABS, very expensive/complicated engines, etc? Tom-remember when it was cool to double clutch & heal & toe the gas & brake pedals? |
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