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Old May 22, 2010 | 12:13 AM
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Default Re: Lesson on Autostick

Originally Posted by Franc Rauscher
True or not doc, you aren't gonna hurt it downshifting as you come off the highway. Fairly tame manouvre and not much heat will develope.

Can't say that about the brakes. Yes they are designed for it but the design includes an intentional sacrificial part. And the bloody mess gets all over my wheels.
Costs nothing to downshift. Clean up is a snap.

Plain and simple.


franc
Franc, surely as long as you have been around, you have ceramic pads on your baby. I have not seen a speck of dust on my wheels since I put the Akebono's on mine.
 
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