gar074 said:

If it's YE11 OWS, you may well have a buyer!

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AB100 said:

Nope. I bought it when they were issued and preferred YE11OWD. Six years later and still waiting for a 4-door Mito or a juicier Panda. In yellow.

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TinyTurbo said:

City Cross now on the fiat.co.uk website. But configurator just takes you to the full Cross model. No doubt it will be fixed soon.

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jackwhoo said:

In my opinion,
Rear drums give roughly the same stopping power as rear discs .
The limiting factor on rear braking is the point at which the tyres start to loose grip with the road, mostly due to weight transfer to the front under braking.
Hence before electronic brake force distribution the need for load compensating valves , inertia valves , brake proportioning valves, brake force limiting valves etc etc

I guess if in the Alps , with a fully loaded car , driving spiritedly , with lots of frequent braking , it could be argued that the ability of discs to shed heat more readily than drums would be advantageous because the drum brakes could get hot enough to suffer hot fade.

I think the only way to know would be to take two identical cars except for rear brakes with identical rear loading and test them against each other.

In my experience on both types of set up the front brakes start to struggle due to heat build up before any sign of heat issues on the rear.

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AB100 said:

You might want to sit down before clicking the link.


http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classif...vertising-location=at_cars&radius=1500&page=3

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