Xantia brake mod....comments

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Xantia brake mod....comments

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& that graphically illustrates all that's wrong with/bad about U-bend!
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uggg ?....no understand
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Exactly my view of the video footage - & as for the music!!! (marginally better than over excited Americans gabbling on in the style of an auctioneer)
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Stickyfinger wrote: 12 Jun 2017, 00:33 uggg ?....no understand


Me neither...

And I find Xantia brakes (post "silly spring" removal from the pedal) perfectly good and more than sharp enough anyway, if you find them in any way lacking I'd say to go after the root cause of this instead of modifying the Doseur.
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Absolutemente - holds good for any/everything: restore to 100% before any modification which, in the event, may not be necessary.
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'05 C15 :!:
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