30-03-2023, 09:09 AM
(This post was last modified: 30-03-2023, 09:10 AM by David Stepney.)
Thank you, gentlemen for your reassurance concerning my brake noise. Perhaps part of my problem is that my brakes rarely get hot. When I was learning to drive some 55 years ago, I was taught at least in part by an elderly chauffeur who always insisted that:
1. The car should be driven as if the brakes were disconnected, and
2. They should only be used when bringing the car to a stand.
He also used to tell me that the passengers should only be aware of the motion of the car by the passing of the scenery.
He has been trained before the war at Rolls-Royce, who, I understand ran a chauffeurs school and this was the advice given, amongst many other 'bon mot'. I still drive this way and I am training young Leon in a similar fashion, contrary, I believe to modern practice.
1. The car should be driven as if the brakes were disconnected, and
2. They should only be used when bringing the car to a stand.
He also used to tell me that the passengers should only be aware of the motion of the car by the passing of the scenery.
He has been trained before the war at Rolls-Royce, who, I understand ran a chauffeurs school and this was the advice given, amongst many other 'bon mot'. I still drive this way and I am training young Leon in a similar fashion, contrary, I believe to modern practice.