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Welderdoosh

137K on my 2002.5 Jetta GLS 1.8T- repairs - window regulators, coil packs, water pump plus timing belt, coolant sensor, maf, pcv Y hose, rear wheel hubs, fuel pump, kombi-valve

care to offer an explanation then?

Just give me an easy life, and a peaceful death.

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ill have to start snapping pics of the cars that get repo'd and brought in to auction or lease returns. we see them down to the fins all the time etc so I can believe it.

BS.

Look at this pic, the other disk is still all there and fine

Quote, originally posted by GTI_2.0T »

Oddly, the right side disc seems to be in at least solid shape.

Maybe the old guy drove with the emergency brake on... for years?

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is that a side exit exhaust too?

Got a broken valence? Sell it to me

Quote, originally posted by Egz »

It takes years of engineering to get the right PSSSSSHHH sound.

Press the loud pedal for more ooomph

yeah, I've seen that too.

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Quote, originally posted by GTI_2.0T »

Oddly, the right side disc seems to be in at least solid shape.

you have never had a sticky caliper that won't release? you need to go around the block a few times before you call B.S. on that.

Welderdoosh

FTFY

Jesus effing christ, who called BS? All I said was that the right side is still solid - I'm perfectly aware that calipers can seize up. You don't think it's odd that the person wouldn't notice that one was hung up to the point that it ate through the effing rotor completely while the other is apparently fine?

You guys are unreal.

Read above. I don't pretend to be the patron saint of all things mechanical as you apparently are, but settle down.

I apologize, calm down. nobody is calling you out. I didn't mean to rrply to you, it was somebody above you that called BS.

Quote, originally posted by Prop »

I call BS on that one.

Modified by patrikman at 10:35 AM 8-24-2009

Welderdoosh

The Grand Marquis--like Ford's other Panthers and quite a few other makes/models--sport a drum-in-hat parking brake setup so that service and parking brake functions are independent of each other.

Since the fronts do 80% of the stopping, and that car is relatively quiet inside, it would be easy to think that the car is still stopping fine and never check the brakes. And it may have been slightly slower than stock due to dragging, but it may have had enoguh power to overcome that to drive at street speeds and not really be noticed that he was pushing the throttle down an addition 1/4 inch over what it woudl normally take if the brake wasnt' dragging. So there may not have been much of anything telling the driver that it needed to be checked earlier on.

I mean, do you check your brakes every day even though you think they are fine?

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Every day, no. I check them often enough to notice if a rotor is literally being machined away however.

I'm sorry, you can not possibly rationalize any behavior on the part of that car's owner that would justify what is in that photo.