John From Detroit
Well-known member
I agree, Drivers likely make more difference in brake wear than who built it.. Truck brakes are built to last a long time as compaired ot cars
However,,, I also agree with the person who said "When it comes to safety, erring on the side of caution is good"
I would rather do an unneeded brake inspection than wish I'd done a needed one... Option one costs what, an hour's labor and takes your MH out of service, what... Well, since it's normally done in conjunction with other work,,, said hour.
Option 2 can take not only your RV but YOU out anywhere from a few days, to weeks, to months to R.I.P.
(That is rest in peace for you, pieces for the MH)
Short story: I got sued (True too, I really did get sued) Brakes failed on my van (Mild conversion Maxi Van, I don't know if it would have qualified as a "B" or not... Possibly would when I had a toilet in it) Brakes failed and my wife could not stop in time to avoid rear ending a Eagle Talon with her Dodge B-250 Tradsman 3/4 ton Maxi Van.
I knew we were going to get sued when I went to pick her up, looked at the damage to the car, and how the people in it were being loaded into ambulances for their trip to the hospital... Sure enough. We got sued.
Well... When the body shop called I went over the brakes with one of their tecnicians looking over my shoulder.. Found the part that failed (Less than six months old, It's mate was still in good condition) I still had the box it came in, reciept stapled to the box.
Well... Wife and I got as far as the depositions.. She, of course, was seriously intimidated by the lawyers and all that, I'm a police dispatcher, not so easily intimidated (Civilian employee of a police agency, you get over intimidation FAST or you don't LAST)
They got to me, the idiot Kentuckey Coronel of a lawyer claiming that I did knowingly and willing allow a vehicle to be operated and all that crud. Well.. I had to box, I had the reciept and I had the reciept for some follow up brake work about six months after the accident. "My" (The insurance company's) attorney ask me why I'd just sunk an additional 700 into the brakes on that ride (new rotors and drumbs in addition to shoes and pads) and I said "Because when I inspected the system... It needed doing"
My insurance settled with the plantiffs out of court, I think it was 3,100.00 Even the adjuster who read me the settlement was amazed, Seems the opening offer was about 3 times that.
Doing that annual brake inspection saved my insurance about 7 Grand,,, Saved me too
However,,, I also agree with the person who said "When it comes to safety, erring on the side of caution is good"
I would rather do an unneeded brake inspection than wish I'd done a needed one... Option one costs what, an hour's labor and takes your MH out of service, what... Well, since it's normally done in conjunction with other work,,, said hour.
Option 2 can take not only your RV but YOU out anywhere from a few days, to weeks, to months to R.I.P.
(That is rest in peace for you, pieces for the MH)
Short story: I got sued (True too, I really did get sued) Brakes failed on my van (Mild conversion Maxi Van, I don't know if it would have qualified as a "B" or not... Possibly would when I had a toilet in it) Brakes failed and my wife could not stop in time to avoid rear ending a Eagle Talon with her Dodge B-250 Tradsman 3/4 ton Maxi Van.
I knew we were going to get sued when I went to pick her up, looked at the damage to the car, and how the people in it were being loaded into ambulances for their trip to the hospital... Sure enough. We got sued.
Well... When the body shop called I went over the brakes with one of their tecnicians looking over my shoulder.. Found the part that failed (Less than six months old, It's mate was still in good condition) I still had the box it came in, reciept stapled to the box.
Well... Wife and I got as far as the depositions.. She, of course, was seriously intimidated by the lawyers and all that, I'm a police dispatcher, not so easily intimidated (Civilian employee of a police agency, you get over intimidation FAST or you don't LAST)
They got to me, the idiot Kentuckey Coronel of a lawyer claiming that I did knowingly and willing allow a vehicle to be operated and all that crud. Well.. I had to box, I had the reciept and I had the reciept for some follow up brake work about six months after the accident. "My" (The insurance company's) attorney ask me why I'd just sunk an additional 700 into the brakes on that ride (new rotors and drumbs in addition to shoes and pads) and I said "Because when I inspected the system... It needed doing"
My insurance settled with the plantiffs out of court, I think it was 3,100.00 Even the adjuster who read me the settlement was amazed, Seems the opening offer was about 3 times that.
Doing that annual brake inspection saved my insurance about 7 Grand,,, Saved me too