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Old 10-01-2010, 11:59 PM   #38 (permalink)
redyaris
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Originally Posted by NachtRitter View Post
I would go so far to say that stop & go driving puts quite a bit more wear on your car than "high speed" (traveling 75 - 85 mph) driving, even though the avg speed is much lower...
Good point; so unless we include the rate of acceration into the understanding we will be missing something. Then the more force we apply to the variouse parts of the car the fasted they will wear.
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