John Anderson comments that: >were from though. Oh BTW all VW brakes squeak, I read an artical >written by a VW engineer who said they could never understand what >Americans had against a little break noise and had given up trying >to silence their brake systems, I've never noticed the problem being
I read that same article, and if I recall right, he said something to the effect of: "What do you want, brakes that are quiet, or brakes that STOP you?!" As an aside, Campagnolo, an Italian bicycle comp./wheel manufacturer, once considered brakes as tools for speed modulation, and therefore never paid anyone any mind regarding stopping power/distance (of course, it helped that they had the best braking system by any definition at the time...) Norman norman_leong@Baynetworks.COM.
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