Thread: V70 Brakes: - Handbrake Woes!
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Old Mar 5th, 2011, 20:07   #43
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Originally Posted by 60041 View Post
Bonded brake shoes have been the norm now for many years and usually perform well and do not cause problems; however handbrake shoes do not wear like normal brake shoes and therefore do not get changed every 3 or 4 years as a normal shoe would. Another problem is corrosion where water penetrates the join between the shoe and the friction material and causes rust which pushes the lining off, in a traditional shoe used for braking the regular heat build up would dry it out. The obvious solution would be to fit rivets.

Totally agree! For the vast majority of their life these things just sit there in the cold and damp doing nothing other than quietly deteriorating.

RIVETS!!!!!
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