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- From: dwsmall@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Derek 'Enzo' Small)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos
- Subject: Re: Anti-Lock blues
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.102639.15247@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 05:26:39 GMT
- Article-I.D.: miavx1.1993Jan25.102639.15247
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- >>>My question to you, especially if you own an SE-R or other
- >>>Nissan with antilock brakes, is is this "normal"?
- >
- >>Not just Nissan. All ABS systems have the consequence of a "grinding." I
- >>found this very unremarkable the first time I used ABS; of course, that was
- >>on snow-covered gravel, and a grinding noise would have happened anyway. So
- >>get used to it; you have a lot of very rapidly oscillating mechanical doo-
- >>dads at work and some odd noise is to be expected.
- >
- > I think at high speeds if it does kick in it is much smoother.
- > Around 10mph the pulse information must be so slowthat things sound clunky.
- > I would not call it "grinding" though.
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- I'm probably posting out of turn since this is two days old but I'm curious.
- Every car I've driven that I've gotting int the ABS on has this characteristic.
- I've never noticed a change in the action due to speed and can't see why
- there should be one. The high pressure systems that this occurs in use
- the same pressure regardless of speed and it's the violent action of the
- very high pressure hydrolics that create it. My question is I've heard
- that several manufactures where working to "fix" this problem, and several
- claim they have. Mazda tooted that the ABS on the second generation Rx-7
- was and anti-kickback system. But it's just a noisy and give just as much
- pedel jutter as the rest of the systems I've driven. Are there any systems
- that have acctually gotten rid of this annoyance?
-
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- * Derek "Enzo" Small [san.dwsmall]@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu *
- * Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 45056 *
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- * " Work hard but know your limitations. Your dog can do things that would *
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