PE>> What, a dual brake system simultaneously failed did it.  The porkies
PE>> are getting better by the minute.  BFN.  Paul. 

JT> This "dual brake system" you speak of in use in the vast
majority of cars
JT> today, is NOT  (read FUCKING NOT)  dual redundancy.  I know of only some
JT> Rolls that have a full blown dual redundancy brake system.

JT> If you lose either the front or back half of your braking system, you still
JT> have _some_ braking, but maybe you don't know how much this
"some" actually
JT> is.  

Half.

JT> This "some" is actually a lot closer to "fuck
all" rather than
JT> "just made it".

Two "fuck all"'s make a whole do they?

JT> How much do YOU trust your "non dual redundant" brake
system now?  Still 
JT> do? Read up on it, and find out how this "dual braking
system" works, and 
JT> then ask which areas fail according to common failures, and what happens 
JT> when it does.

I did read up on it, and the manual told me that it was designed so that if
one part of the system failed, the thing would still work.  In this case,
the question is on the front brake hoses.  BFN.  Paul.
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