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Originally Posted by Eyekutr
Hi judge
you have some good advice. For the record, I bought the camry for my dad, who is 64 and drives mostly highway. He tends to drive the car hard with panicky braking....he must be riding the brakes too hard....
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Ah, okay we are heading some were. Sad to say I doubt a 64 year old is jumping on the brakes ( I mean like a kid). But yes tailgating and jerky can have the same effect But! Check all the steering stuff links and all, is this car new? or old? maybe it is not straight? Get garage to do a cross corner tape measure of it. An does he let his left foot drag on the brake? you know just rest on it? Waiting to jump on it? If he is doing that he will keep them hot and when he does his panicky stuff, it adds to it.
You might want to wear in the brakes for him and try to have him keep his left foot on the pad not near the brake?
Now this is all guessing ok. From what you are saying.
So get all checked including if the car is straight. Then if all is good you try and start driving that car, you can cheat a bit (with new brakes, pads and all). When you start driving it with new brakes as you leave the driveway touch the brakes a bit and keep doing it a bit, but do it soft, and not to often. Don't want to get them to hot but just touching,not often and not at high speed. Go around 60 miles doing that. But never much and never hard. That will work well. Sorta just kissing the pads to the disk. You will wear material into them. An never let him leave the parking brake on when leaving overnight. Not good to do.
These are heavy cars and the brakes are very well designed for standard driving.
An that is the best info I can give.
Happy driving
EDIT: Yes I see it is not new, what I meant by that do you know if it is not a well, you know. Lets just say did you do a carfax? Or buy from family, sorry just wanted to make it clear.
