People who shouldn't have better cars than me!

[Guest Monster]

A good friend once informed me - while traveling in his rather new car - that he would have to take the car in for the brakes. Looking at his odometer, I remarked he should not have to replace his brake pads as he had only 15K miles. He then informed me his brakes wear fast as he doesn't have any rear brakes.

I was momentarily alramed! Amazingly, I didn't ask much more. Just told him all cars have rear brakes - if they didn't, it would be akin to riding a bike downhill and pulling just the front brake. Your rear would come up and you would roll end over end again and again. Nothing more was said...

Then we reached the gas station - it was cold out so the window was up. I could hear some commotion and saw my friend motioning to his rear tire. When I climbed out he exclaimed: "See - see, no rear brakes!" It became apparrent that if he was unable to view the calipers and pads (disc brakes) he was sure there were none.

A brief conversation ensued, where I educated him about that new-fangled creation, the drum brake!