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Old 11-09-2009, 11:54 PM   #228 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by TheSGC View Post
You should check and make sure your brakes are fine. My brakes were pretty easy to use, even without assist, but it turned out they were dragging and down to the metal and no longer safe. They actually started to slow me EV down while driving. After replacing them I found I can't even stop the EV without the vacuum assist.
I really should check them, but they can't be that bad because they had plenty of pad left on them when I was commuting with it no more than 2,000 miles ago. I never checked the rear drums though.....Hey, did you get your transmission?
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