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Re: Car Brakes Squeaking

deans@wdeans.com

2005-07-25, 2:21 pm

> Please state whether you agree that either brake will do better at a
> pressure slightly less than what causes it to lock up and skid.

If you can create pressure causing friction slightly less than enough
to lock up the brakes without causing brake failure for the duration of
the stop all brake pad materials will perform equally well.

At legal speeds in my state the $9.99 semi-metallic pads perform as
well as Kevlar and they don't eat up my rotors as fast. You could of
course heat them up until they failed before Kevlar with a series of
rapid decelerations but I would never do that. Someone said something
about a mountain. Drop your car into low gear and there is not a
mountain in the USA which would cause my $9.99 semi-metallic pads to
fail.

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