Leave the emergency(parking) brake off?
I had a brake caliper seize heading up Vancouver Island. I had it replaced at OK tire in Duncan. Excellent service had me out in an hour. The fellow that I was dealing with said that if an Motorhome ...
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Fulltimers wrote:
My car has over 160,000 miles on it and still has the original brake fluid.
What's the problem?
Well THAT swings the pendulum of obsessive behavior in the OTHER direction.
Are you really saying that during all of that 160k miles it has never needed any major brake work ? Really ??
I subscribe to "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." so I don't change brake fluid until some other major brake work needs to be done.
P.S. In 1972 my Dad bought a new GMC pickup. When I got it, about 2005, it had EVERYTHING ORIGINAL, including tires with low mileage. Just about the time I decided to catch up on the neglected maintenance, a friend let it run low on oil and it threw a rod.
Just because people occasionally get away with stupid stuff like that doesn't mean that it is a good idea.
