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The Classic Marque

Not just EVs that have become over complicated with electronics! My son once bought a Maserati Spyder. It was a company car that wouldn't start and the owner thought it also had a seized gearbox. It was cheap anyway as the business was going bankrupt I went with him to meet the flat bed transporter that was picking it up. As we looked over the car my son noticed there was no buzzing sound as he we...

Haha yeah, it should in theory be more straightforward as an electric motor has, what 6 or 7 parts, whereas an ICE can have a couple of hundred.
But like modern ICE it's all the associated electrickery which makes it so complicated 🤔

Don't know if you've seen him but here's a bloke on YouTube, Mat Armstrong, who takes a refreshing diy approach to restoring insurance write offs. Th...

My front brakes squealed after I fitted Mintex 1144 pads, despite the use of copper grease.

Last year, I fitted a complete set of discs and pads to my daily driver and I also bought a tube of ceramic grease from Euro Car Parts.

I tried the grease on the B pads and it stopped them squealing.

Thank for your reply Paul. I have removed the pads and as you can see the pistons in the calliper do not seem to contact the pads squarely. This surprises me as I would expect squarer contact. These Delphi pads do have a backing attached but the pistons have cut through them causing metal to metal contact, is this the cause of the squealing, they have been chamfered on the ends
There is signs ...

Yep.

Trump says he will begin blockading Strait of Hormuz and 'any Iranian who fires at us will be blown to hell' after peace talks failed over Tehran's 'nuclear ambitions':

Dirty Donald's going in. Maximum force by the looks of it.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn4v0xm9y0kt

Complicated stuff eh?

Long gone are the Sunday mornings with blokes heads under the bonnet, fixing stuff, prior to belting down the boozer for a quick one before lunch. 🤣🤣


ABS.

All Beyond Selfsort. 😂.

Very common! Were any of the pads sets chamfered? That is supposed to be one of the 'cures' but only helped for the first few trips. Did any of them have a rubberised backing? My roadster may have those in at the moment. A set of V8 pads came complete with shims but squealed.

The only (at least, I stopped trying different things at that point!) thing that worked for me (although it h...

Could the ABS system act as an electronic diff by slowing the inside wheel when cornering?

Mine does the same on a (reverse) incline but it's the electronic handbrake which kicks in rather than the motor holding the car stationary.

Not used but The Little British car company now has a Sale on upholstery, LBC sells Moss list price parts at a 15 % discount
Len

The screeching front brakes on my 71 roadster is driving me nuts, I have tried all sorts to cure them. New discs. Callipers, 2 different types of brake pads, using copper slip on the backs of the pads, even cut a groove in the pads and nothing seems to work for long. I don’t think that shims are made for the B pads unless someone knows better. Any ideas appreciated.