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    Cars don't work well without breaks

    I discovered this just a minute ago...didn't hit anything, though I did have to get to the shoulder to stop. I'm sitting in the waiting room at the garage now (somebody has an open gateway upstairs )...so, how much are we betting this is going to end up costing me? Brakes failed, minor smoke coming from under the hood.

    No, I don't really expect an answer, just annoyed...I made my last payment on this car earlier this month. I knew something was going to happen.
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    1. Age?
    2. Ford?
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    • #3
      I disagree, they work wery well without brakes!





      ...that was just to be in the spirit of online forums

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      • #4
        breaks should be that bad unless you destroyed the shoes, which it sounds like you did.

        This Spec's area of expertise
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        • #5
          Cars also don't seem to work well without head gaskets. Sigh.
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          • #6
            Ropes, hooks

            Anchors

            Lassos

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            • #7
              feet?
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              • #8
                Just run into a moose to stop the car. It's the Maine way.
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                • #9
                  Cars running without breaks are bound to eventually have their engines seize up and have significant damage.

                  Cars running without brakes are bound to eventually hit something and suffer tremendous impact damage.
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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Asher
                    1. Age?
                    2. Ford?
                    1) I estimate 5 years

                    2) Of course, I'm surprised it lasted so long.


                    Dont you have a Ford (Mazda)?
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                    • #11
                      Re: Cars don't work well without breaks

                      Originally posted by Koyaanisqatsi
                      I discovered this just a minute ago...didn't hit anything, though I did have to get to the shoulder to stop. I'm sitting in the waiting room at the garage now (somebody has an open gateway upstairs )...so, how much are we betting this is going to end up costing me? Brakes failed, minor smoke coming from under the hood.

                      No, I don't really expect an answer, just annoyed...I made my last payment on this car earlier this month. I knew something was going to happen.
                      Hmmm Spec is better for this but if the brakes failed completely you've lost all fluid add that with 'smoke' from under hood = brake master cylinder leak (maybe). If just the power brakes went off then it could be the vacuum booster (which I would guess is more likely).
                      We need seperate human-only games for MP/PBEM that dont include the over-simplifications required to have a good AI
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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by SpencerH


                        1) I estimate 5 years

                        2) Of course, I'm surprised it lasted so long.


                        Dont you have a Ford (Mazda)?
                        I have a Mazda, which is a very different thing than having a Ford, even though Ford owns like 35% of Mazda.

                        Ford generally lets Mazda do their own thing, and my car was designed & built in Japan, not the US...
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                        • #13
                          Who did you piss off to cut ur breakline?? No im kidding no answer for the price to fix the breaks cause i dont know ur car, how ever it is quite cheap if ya do it ur self. just the price of the parts. No need to pay 63 bucks an hour for labor i can do my self. The smoke under the hood another loss, could be radaitor or an oil leak as well. Most break units dont smoke from under the hood unless u blow off a line and it hits the hot engine.
                          Most front breaks will cost you over 65 bucks. and thats if they only have to replcae pads and fluid. Lines will run ya a bit more
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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Asher
                            1. Age?
                            2. Ford?
                            You just don't like Ford's do you?

                            Well my Ford Mustang GT got wrecked by a drunk driver. He drove off as well. Left me with thousands of dollars worth of damage. I just decided you can't drive a nice vehicle in my city because 90% of the drivers are drunk. So I got rid of it. I really can't handle that much power anyways. I already got 2 speeding tickets in 4 months.

                            So I got a Toyota. It's 100 times more a piece of **** than my Ford was. I though Toyotas were supposed to be good cars?

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                            • #15
                              Meh. Fixed. $20 for a new brake line and fluid. $200 for the 3 hours it took for them to replace it. Plus a new inspection sticker (I already had an appointment set up there for about 2 hours after I brought it in to have it inspected... ) Too bad the wireless wasn't stable enough for me to do anything more than send and email and play civ for 3 hours...

                              And to Ogie. I'm going to claim stress as the excuse. I can do that, right?
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