Originally Posted by
Mark
I have no doubt about that. I was just clarifying that's not the case here. For the few times one may have to deal with drum brakes, I would just live with them.
What I really don't like is the new trend of electric parking brakes. Parking brakes are also emergency brakes & a manual control allows you to control your stop better. I had brakes go out once, & I safely got the car back to shop with the emergency brakes. I might add it was driver's education car (2003 Malibu). Glad we were doing parking lot work when they (master cylinder) went out.
I agree, the effort in a swap isn't worth the return. I wouldn't even bother upgrading the drums on a 14-15 to the larger 17 style. Just a waste of time and money imo.
And I'm not a fan of electric park/emergency brakes either for that same reason. Plus it's just another thing to go wrong. Same with electric shifters but with everything heading to hybrid and/or electric there's no avoiding that.
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