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Is your wife tough on brakes?

Dibbons said:
She brakes with her left foot, very uncomfortable for a passenger because not smooth at all when coming to a complete stop. Just finished replacing the rear shoes on both our Jeep Cherokee's (her current daily driver and her former daily driver).
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In my youth, with my '70 Barracuda, I routinely braked with my left foot. Also relied on how well my brakes worked. As an older person, don't use those same techniques. I'm still worried with my wife's techniques, she wasn't that good in her 20' or 30's. I was.
 
66Satellite47 said:
In my youth, with my '70 Barracuda, I routinely braked with my left foot. Also relied on how well my brakes worked. As an older person, don't use those same techniques. I'm still worried with my wife's techniques, she wasn't that good in her 20' or 30's. I was.
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I always tell my wife, "you have a lot of confidence in your brakes considering who works on them" (me.)
 
4 sets of rotors and pads on my 2007 PT Cruiser. 90+K miles. Stick shift car.
I live in a hilly part of town.Can't blame the wife though. Changed out often because of warped rotors.
Could use a set now.
 
My wife is easy on parts she can get our 5.7 Jeep GC up to 18.5 mpg average. I move it downward. She gets a easy 75k out of most brakes even with the salt in the winter trying to kill the rotors.
 
payback......

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Reminds of the time I drove a U-Haul truck towing a Mazda GLC from Texas to California. My best friend followed behind driving my Porsche 914. When I first pulled away in the truck, I noticed it took quite an effort on the truck's part. I thought being loaded to the hilt and towing a vehicle behind it was just to be expected. My friend from behind noticed some smoke but failed to advise me of that fact.

Arriving in California, we find the Mazda's rear brakes were toast. I guess after an exhausting day of packing and leaving after dark, we had failed to release the parking brake. A silly error, but those things happen.
 
Mine ran off 27 years ago.. This post reminded me of the brakes, tires, broken wheels and blown tires from curbing the NICE cars we bought for her.. She ran out of gas probably 30 times and left her lights on after parking at work, dozens of times.......

The best part is our two boys were with the guy she ran off with as he had to go jump start her car one day... My son told me how he cussed her out all the way there and he was tired of her running out of gas too... LOL .. Some things never change...
And some poor sop married her years later .... Enjoy married guys... I laugh at the women drivers daily So GLAD I don't have to deal with one at home....
 
Having spent 30 years in the general repair and Chrysler dealership as a mechanic I have found that woman are harder on their brakes and tires.

My personal daily driver is a 2014 Grand Caravan. 89k miles and still the original front and rear brakes. I’m the only driver 99% of the time.

So, now the pictures. Sent to me yesterday by my buddy from his sisters van. Inner pad was MISSING.....

Cliff Ramsdell
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When we were young, my wife would burn up pads and rotors at 30k in a Toyota Tercel. I realize now, that racing to day care to pick up our daughter probably was a big factor. I got 200K out of a Pontiac Bonneville during the same era. After replacing the last set on the Toyota, she asked me how many miles I got in my car. Kind of like the question, "do these pants make me look fat?" I screwed up and told the truth. Never repeated that mistake, and now she gets over 75K in her Lexus.
 
When she drove Grand Cherokees I kept an extra set of rotors because they warped so bad. I’d take the warped ones to be turned and kept them in reserve for when she warped the next set. She goes from hard on the gas to hard on the brakes instead of lifting and letting her car decelerate before applying the brakes. Her sister is the same way.
 
It’s that last lurch. Doesn’t know the meaning of feather. Rock back and forth on final stop. Closes too fast too. Not gonna change.
 
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