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Old 09-12-11 | 12:20 PM
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I don't think squealing brakes stop any worse, but it can make modulability suffer.

Click and Clack, the Tappett Brothers, said (of car brakes):
Europeans don't mind if their brakes squeal as long as they stop. Americans don't care if their brakes don't stop, as long as they don't squeal.
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