Colleagues
Brake fade may be familiar to most you as a concept but this weekend, I
encountered it for real. And not for the first time.
My 5-spd manual 1985 300TD suffers brake fade quite conspicuously on
long winding descents, even at relatively slow speeds. The speed is slow
because I descend in 3rd gear, usually adopting the truckies' practice
of braking the wagon on the engine with short, periodic use of the
brakes to bring speed down further. I do not ride the brakes all the way
down hills.
This weekend I had four souls on board. Not a big load by any means.
So, what's causing this? The rotors are MB standard issue (not machined
down at all). The pads are (to my knowledge) MB-approved (that is, not
some after-market crap by Kamakusa) but soft rather than hard compound.
I experimented with harder pads once but removed them as unsatisfactory
(noisy and less efficient, if I recall correctly).
Is there anything else I can check?
Thanks
Euan
1985 300TD 5-spd manual
213K mi
CHCH
NZ
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