[ROVERNET - UK] And now, let's upset P6 lovers..REALLY CRAPPY BRAKES??.

Warwick Brooks warwick at regscom.com.au
Thu Nov 29 04:10:31 GMT 2007


And compare that with the aforementioned 1970s Peugeots, for example.

Unplug the sensor wires, remove the pad pins, lift out the pads, rotate the
pistons a 1/4 turn using a short length of square-section bar, press them
back into the calliper, rotate them back again, drop in the new pads, put
the pins back, plug in the wires.

5 minutes if you don't count jacking up the car and removing the wheel.

That leaves the rest of the weekend free to try to figure out how to remove
the fuel pump from the Range Rover without removing the towbar and the
petrol tank; and wondering why BL decided not to put an access plate in the
rear floor until a later model.

Regards,
Warwick.

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Sent: Thursday, 29 November 2007 2:57 PM
To: agale at iinet.net.au; rovernet at lyris.ccdata.com
Subject: Re: [ROVERNET - UK] And now,let's upset P6 lovers..REALLY CRAPPY
BRAKES??.

HI
 I've yet to plumb the depths of RVW's rear brakes . However I know they
can't possibly be as bad as those on an E type Jaguar . 
These combine Mr Girling's most Mickey Mouse design and crappulous execution
with total in accesibility from above , below and 
either side .It took me 3 days to change the parking brake pads and rebuild
the " self adjusting " mechanism. Yes , I know they 
shouldn't wear since they are only used when the disc is at rest , but the
friction material  came unbonded and fell off .!!!However 
the E type is still looked on as THE British car of all time, mostly by
people who have never owned a 40 year old E type !!
Cheers
 Patrick
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan Gale" <agale at iinet.net.au>
To: <rovernet at lyris.ccdata.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 9:28 PM
Subject: Re: [ROVERNET - UK] And now, let's upset P6 lovers...


Look who's gone into the cupboad and got out their best anoraks!!

Considering the relative rarity of the job, the fact that they work well and
now have been doing so for several decades and how 
lying on one's back under the car is perhaps one of the last real escapes a
family man has left over the weekend ...

Is this all we have to whinge about?


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