On Mar 2, 9:50*am, (Doug Miller) wrote:
In article , wrote:

On Mar 1, 9:13=A0pm, Oren wrote:
On Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:05:30 -0500, wrote:
HOWEVER - the brakes must be applied HARD - and STEADY - NOT PUMPED -
to stop the vehicle as quickly as possible. Lighter braking will give
the brakes too much time to heat up and fade - and pumping at WOT
looses your vacuum boot VERY QUICKLY.

People forget they have a parking / "emergency" brakes? =A0What a crazy
world.

Not sure what your point is but if it's to suggest that the parking
brake could be used to stop a car while it's under near max power,
that won't work. *They are intended for parking only, the brake pads
are smaller than the main pads,

Not true. The parking brake uses exactly the same pads that the service brake
uses, except (as noted) on only two wheels instead of all four.



Maybe on YOUR car, but not on my Mercedes. The parking brake pads are
completely seperate. I'm not sure what various other manufacturers
do. I'm sure others as you say do use the same pads. But even if
they do, it then has even less relevance to stopping the car under
runaway conditions. If you're already standing on the hydraulic
brakes that use the same pads, applying the parking brake isn't going
to do anything,