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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

My wife is a leadfoot, and generally got about half as many miles on tires and brakes as me, on my car when we both drove ICE.
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I had a similar issue on a different part of the car. I bought two new cars in 1992... one was a manual transmission and one was an automatic. Both cars were driven until they were done (say 200,000 miles) and during that time, the automatic went through 7 sets of brakes. Meanwhile, the manual transmission car was still on its original set. Some of that had to do with highway versus city driving but a lot had to do with gearing down and using the engine for braking.


77 posted on 01/25/2024 4:40:32 AM PST by hecticskeptic (Q. What’s the difference between a conspiracy theory and the truth? A. About 6 months....)
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To: hecticskeptic

I’ve got CVT automatic on my 2014 Corolla and my wife’s 2019 Rav4. It has B-S-D forward gears. Brake-Slow-Drive, which sort of act like first-second-third for the purpose of downshifting. B is for approaching a stop, S to keep from picking up speed going downhill, and D for everything else. 75K miles on the Corolla and original brakes.


123 posted on 01/25/2024 3:10:38 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!)
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