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Subject: Re: Re: Honda brakes vibrating
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Date: Tue, 5-Nov-85 22:26:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov  5 22:26:00 1985
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** Brake lines **


Face it, what we're looking at here is a design trade off.  Bigger, fatter
rotors with more mass would not suffer so much from warpage due to heating
and cooling, but they are not available as retrofit items.  Certain cars
(and certain drivers) have a problem with warped discs.  The only solution
is to have them machined or replaced, and the problem will occur again.
The designers of the car could have used heavier (read: more costly) brake
components but that of course would have affected the retail price of the
car.

There are cars that *never* have this problem.  Corvette rotors never
warp, but then again, one corvette rotor weighs about as much as a Toyota
does.  These were, alas, the trade offs the designers of both Corvettes
and Toyotas chose to make.

Unfortunately, it's hard to tell what's gonna happen here when you buy a
car.  About the best you can do is check into the repair history of a car
before you buy it.

R.M. Mottola
Cyborg Corp.
Newton, MA.