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Date Registered: 10-2013
Location: Melbourne
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Re: how much can I brake before crossing water?


You should try not use excessive braking on long downhill drives.

After learning to drive in the British army on drum braked landrovers and Bedford RLs, you learn to not rely on the brakes much and use the gearbox as much as possible. The best rule of thumb is to go down hill in the same gear as you went up it, then use gentle braking occasionally to check your speed.

Next time you are on a long downhill drive, select a low gear and go downhill with your feet off. Then watch how often and how long the car in front uses their brakes.

Also, have a look at how dirty the alloy wheels on automatic cars get over manuals.

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Date Registered: 05-2012
Location: Sunshine Coast
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Next time you are on a long downhill drive, select a low gear and go downhill with your feet off. Then watch how often and how long the car in front uses their brakes.



No disrespect intended, but that was a good idea for all round leading edge drum brakes about 60 years ago.

Unfortunately I have vivid memories of my grandfather descending hills in 2nd gear because that is the gear he used to climb it.emoticon

I do tend to drive around people who unnecessarily slow my descent.

(I tend to use engine braking but touch the brakes when required, let them cool then touch them again on usual descents.)

I like to go down the hill at the same speed I wished I was going up that hill. No difference really in the X-Trail.

Discs dissipate heat much better without brake fade (or the total loss expected with hot drums) both wet and dry.

As long as the discs don't get red hot, then suddenly cooled, they should be OK for the OP.

Jalal has learned the hard way that hot pads can imprint on the rotor when things get too hot.emoticon

If red hot rotors hit cold water, they 'may' warp. It depends upon the inner tensions of that rotor.

Too many variables to make it a certainty but it is something to avoid if possible.

With a towed Van I would have thought that the time taken to assess the water crossing would be sufficient to allow the thin (but relatively efficient) rotors to cool sufficiently.

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DogTrail wrote:
Jalal has learned the hard way that hot pads can imprint on the rotor when things get too hot.emoticon



I did learn that the disc compound of the T31 is much softer than the T30 emoticon

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I did learn that the disc compound of the T31 is much softer than the T30 emoticon



If it works as an indicator, I did manage to get 198,000 Km from the original Brumby brake pads.

Brakes are only used to correct improper forward planning emoticon

This X-Trail probably still has remnants of the plastic covers on the calipers!

(Which may be the strongest part).

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Depends on the terrain mate.

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Depends on the terrain mate.



Agreed, I usually drive on an unusually level terrain - which incidentally gives me wildly unusual fuel economy for the model.



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