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Old 03-20-2012, 01:11 AM   #18 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Frank Lee View Post
Almost everything that isn't a heavy duty truck has plastic pistons.
That is certainly different from the early 90s! The pistons in the calipers of my CRX were metal. I thought the pistons in Da Wife's 2000 M-B were metal as well, but I could be wrong on that.

It would certainly eliminate the pistons rusting, which was one possible failure mode in some of the old cars.

-soD
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