Re: OK - I'm pissed ('lux brakes)

On Apr 28, 10:34=A0pm, Daryl Walford <dwalf...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Toby Ponsenby wrote:
> > On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:02:16 +0800d, Klompmeester Blathered on
> > inVZOdnXW6D8syPYjVnZ2dnUVZ_h2pnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> "the_dawggie" <the_dawg...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> >> news:07a91c1c-e284-4b65-
> > a1ee-7d41f14e7...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>> On Apr 28, 2:13 pm, the_dawggie <the_dawg...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >>>> Cant they get this right????
>
> >>>> They design a vehicle that is fairly ferpect.
>
> >>>> The brakes suck. Today yet again need to service them.
>
> >>>> Replaced just about everything so far - the design is wrong. No
it's
> >>>> not due to the vehicle being turbocharged.
>
> >>>> Yawn, I'll go back and see if I can make it work.
>
> >>>> ... again.
> >>> Ok, did another master cylinder bleed. Top pedal now, still think
ther=
e
> >>> is something wrong there.
>
> >>> Or somewhere. I'll see how it goes over time.
> >> The master system is ****ed you ****ing dickhead.
>
> > Not just a Toyota speciality, but they do dabble in MS ****ups on
their
> > 4WD chariots of the dawggie Hi-Lux era.
> > Like Bland Cruisers, ferinstance - also blighted with the same common
> > fault set.
>
> Dawggies Lux is about 18yrs old so a bit of maintenance like a mc
> overhaul is to be expected, I'd hardly consider something wearing out
> after that length of time to be a problem.
> My Hilux just clicked over 120,000klms and its still on the OE brakes
> pads and rear brake shoes, at the current rate of wear they will last
> about 200,000klms which is nothing to complain about.

Hmmm. Time to get mine done before it goes down hill I suppose. I'm
hardly ever on the brakes so that's prolly why it's lasted so long.