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- From: zirk@celece.ucsd.edu (Karin Zirk)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.vw
- Subject: Re: Using Brakes....a Clarification
- Message-ID: <2438@deadmin.ucsd.edu>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 21:17:13 GMT
- References: <C0nsJI.LEF@umassd.edu> <1993Jan18.173011.28596@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan18.173011.28596@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, ben@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ben En) writes:
- > I'd like all of you non-downshifting zealots to drive my 63 vw camper
- > or my 62 vw pickup in the rockies without using downshifting to keep
- > your speed under control - it's not either braking or downshifting, it's
- > both/and and hope it doesn't get too much steeper!
- >
- > --
- > Ben
-
-
- I'll second that one!!!! Even using both, I had my
- brakes overheat coming down from the Sierra's one
- summer and lost 90% of my braking power.
-
- Karin
-