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Isn't that a bit dodgy?

 

Ever tried steering a car when the power steering's failed?

Same difference, innit.

 

Yes. It's a struggle on a big car at slow speed but not impossible.
Once you get up to 30mph it is fine.

What do Evo brakes need apart from a bit of vacuum for the servo?
Or does it have an electric vacuum pump so the clarksons can brake
with one foot while feeding the turbo with the other?

 

Ever tried steering a car when the power steering's failed?

Same difference, innit.
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Put like that I understand. My first though was it was a total loss of
brakes without electricity.

 

Yes, I've raced one.

Not really. Mick had inferred that no electricity = no brakes. In the
event of the the electricity supply failing you'd have no brakes. Which
is not really a failsafe scenario.

You'd probably be left with brakes that required greater effort to achieve
the same retardation.... ermmm, I'm agreeing with your power steering
analogy.

What actually happens when Evo brakes lose their feed?

 

Power *assisted* steering - you can still steer.

Not if Platy really means *no* brakes.

ICBW but I thought UK construction regs required brakes and steering to
have a physical failsafe i.e. not entirely electronic. I have googled
but can't find anything now. I'm sure I read it many years ago in an
IEE article on some automated wagons that could never[1] be legal in
the UK.

[1] Under the then current legislation.

 

Sorry, I thought this was a discussion, not a pedantry contest.

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

Yes. Not a thing I care to try too often, tyvm.

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