Posted by bc on February 04, 2010 at 10:57:07 from (65.66.85.240):
In Reply to: Re: OT-brakes fail posted by Jon Hagen on February 04, 2010 at 10:01:40:
First, JMOR, for the record, I wasn't aware of the 1 second delay complaint by others but I'll look into it and watch for it. Thanks. My wife drives most the time anyway.
Jon, you bring up an interesting issue though.
Apparently the one second delay is connected with the antilock brake system. May well be, I haven't driven it in an antilock brake situation where they need to kick in. I've been driving it on the ice and snow this winter and it has braked allright without the antilock kicking in with that characteristic brake stutter. So I can't say one way or another on that issue but doesn't about any car have a delay of some sort caused by the antilock system kicking in?
You have raised an interesting comment about the hard slick tires which explains a number of things.
We just had ours in for the 30,000 mile oil change and the service manager called and said it needed new tires as they were wore down to the wear bars. He then went into a long sales pitch to get my wife to buy new tires from them. She called me and I called him. I told him to forget it cause why would I want to replace dealer/mfr tires that got poor tire wear with another set of dealer/mfr tires. I checked the tires when we picked it up and they were "not" down to the tire wear indicators. Close, but not to the extreme that he told my wife when he gave her the sales pitch and the same sales pitch he gave me when I called him back. I figured he was trying to take advantage of a woman with his scare tactics about bald tires so accordingly we won't take it back there anymore.
One of the things I've noticed about this car is that the wind blows it all over the road and a lot worse than our pickup or expedition or any other small car we've owned. Now I know why, the hard slick tires.
We have plenty of washboard roads that will flip a car in a hurry but don't drive it much on those. I'll have to watch it from now on.
Guess I'll replace the tires with a good all season tire with lots of tread depth and grooved for water and snow dispersal.
It would probably do better with running in the gear that allows engine braking. Probably affect the gas mileage though. I've tried it both ways on flat roads and decided I could adjust and use the brakes a little more without the engine engaged gear. Every car made seems to go through front brakes fairly quickly anyway.
I wonder if your toyota mod guy has a way to allow you to drive for a while such as a few miles before the engine comes on to charge the batteries. The best we've done is baby it along for 3 blocks at 15 mph before the engine kicked in.
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