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 Posted: Sat Nov 3rd, 2012 17:27
steve of oxford

 

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blackfox wrote:
...LOL polish built Fiats. Them things had a nasty habit of dropping brake pads onto the floor. I remember them well !

yep (scenario) heading towards a steep cutting dropping down to town and its single track only ,car coming up ,slams on my brakes ,front brake pads drop out ,tiny little grass bank on my nearside going upwards not downwards ,only choice head up it ,comes to halt ,opens drivers door jumps down 6 foot and stands there shaking for half a hour grrrrrrrrrrrrr>:(>:(


Strange thing is I had a couple of Fiats a 124 & a Mirafiore and that didn't happen. Seems just the Polish built stuff had the reputation for spitting pads out.

You don't see any FSO's these days, I guess they've all rotted out.