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The brakes ops check: good. Posted by John Fitzgerald [Email]  (#77)  [Profile/Gallery]
(more from John Fitzgerald) on Wed, 7 Sep 2011 20:31:55
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Driving back from church tonight with my three daughters, about 2030, dark, just a couple miles from home, at 60 mph on a two lane state highway ... and a doe [a deer, a female deer] jumps out of the ditch one hundred? feet or so from the right front side.
I have not stood on the brakes in the Aero, ever, this hard in 25 years of driving 9000's. Anti skid cycled [sorry, thinking airplanes for a minute] and I think I heard at least one wheel start to lock up. Missed the doe by inches on the left front fender. Barely. Adrenaline flow: also ops checked 'good'. Fortunately nobody behind me, especially nobody busy texting or watching a dvd, etc. Otherwise they'd be in the hatch right now.
What little help I had from the rear brakes = better with the new set of rotors and pads put on last week. I'm pretty picky about bedding them in; nothing high tech about the hardware, though: brembo rotors and PBR DeLuxe pads. Thanks, eEuroparts. Tires are also fairly new; a few months ago anyway, and decent Continental all season rubber.
Can't afford to total this car, we use it too much. My wife's a swim coach and we probably put close to 60k mi the past three years. Bought in 2000 with approx 20k on it; need to teach my girls to drive with it [if they ever happen upon a stick shift in their driving careers, they won't be helpless]. No rust yet; driver's seat heater is the only inop item right now, just spent the afternoon putting new valve cover gaskets and 'distributor shaft plug' on ... "Only" need to get another 100,000 out of it ...
John
Burlington, Wisc
'73 96 RHD sold after four years in Middle Barton, Oxfordshire, UK
'80 99 sold after 20 years/192,000mi
'86 9kT sold after 12 years/approx 121,000 mi
'87 9kT sold after 9 years/approx 174,000
'97 CSE given to my son after 8 years/, he sold it at 254k
'97 Aero 210,xxx
and a couple of 'non-Saabs':
'01 Suburban 123,xxx
'03 BMW 330 Cic 42,xxx
_______________________________________ John Burlington, Wisc '73 96 RHD sold after four years in Middle Barton, Oxfordshire, UK '80 99 bought new, sold after 20 years/192,000mi '86 9kT picked up at Trollhatten, sold after 12 years/approx 121,000 mi '87 9kT sold after 9 years/approx 174,000 mi '94 CSE given to my son after 8 years @ 245k; he sold it at 254k mi '95 Aero 146,xxx mi sold '98 CSE 248,xxx mi gave it away '97 Aero 317,xxx mi my daughter’s school car … gave away [we put 300k mi on it] still driving: '97 CSE 170xxx mi 'project car' for myself and my daughters to drive '07 9-3 2.0T 240xxx '08 9-5 191xxx mi my wife's daily driver and a couple of 'non-Saabs': '01 Suburban 201,xxx mi '03 BMW 330 Cic 84,xxx mi '14 Mercedes E350 103,xxx mi
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