On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:15 AM, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> wrote: > At 10:58 AM 3/31/2009, Gregory Smith wrote: >> >> From talking to my automotive tech friend, the omni-directional scuffing >> is more to do with reducing harmonics when the brakes are first used >> that actual effectiveness. For some reason people hate noisy brakes. > > Yes, they aim to produce a random non-directional non-repeating > pattern so as not to excite oscillation between pad and disk. > >
Thanks for the explanation David and Greg. That makes sense. Neil.
-- Neil Nicholson '81 VanaJetta 2.0 "Jaco" http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/ http://groups.google.com/group/vanagons-with-vw-inline-4-cylinder-gas-engines |
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