Re: 5000 brake mods contemplated (SMTP

[LToy@aol.com]

Bob D'Amato writes (in response to my No Way! on less effective brakes):

>(and mercedes!) have sqeaky brakes!! I think its just one of my pet 
>peeves, makes the car sound cheap!

--where's that Nomex suit?  ahh--here we go:

This is one of the (but not the only) reasons we get so many boring autos in
the US--so many American consumers have to have their car do this and that
just so (whether or not it has anything to do with DRIVING).  If it doesn't,
they head right into the dealer, asking to have something fixed that doesn't
need fixing.  I believe this is why we get idiot lites instead of real
gauges, or gauges with marks instead of numbers, motorized seatbelts and so
many other "features" in our American driving environment today (my auto pet
peeve since I have to live with a rental car more than my Q-car).
 Admittedly, I'll tradeoff braking to $ (to some extent), but if it's braking
to noise, i'll take the noise  and roll up the windows!

Linus 
LToy@aol.com