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so driving the astra on the weekend, going all the way down Mt Dandenong in the usual 1000 steps traffic, get down to the bottom of the hill and notice smoke coming from both front wheel wells. I drove a few hundred meters down the road to cool them a bit, then pulled over to have a look. They didnt seem that hot, and what was still smoking didnt look to be coming from the calipers.

Pedal feel is fine, plenty of meat on the pads and have done less than 20,000kms same as the rotors, brakes havent been touched in at least 2-4000kms, brakes are fine before and after incident.

Any reason to be concerned? could it be from excess brake dust on the wheels? (its pretty bad, but not neglected-euro bad)

so driving the astra on the weekend, going all the way down Mt Dandenong in the usual 1000 steps traffic, get down to the bottom of the hill and notice smoke coming from both front wheel wells. I drove a few hundred meters down the road to cool them a bit, then pulled over to have a look. They didnt seem that hot, and what was still smoking didnt look to be coming from the calipers.

Pedal feel is fine, plenty of meat on the pads and have done less than 20,000kms same as the rotors, brakes havent been touched in at least 2-4000kms, brakes are fine before and after incident.

Any reason to be concerned? could it be from excess brake dust on the wheels? (its pretty bad, but not neglected-euro bad)

brakes are fine before and after incident.
brakes are fine before and after incident.
brakes are fine before and after incident.

I'm sure there'll be countless candlelight vigils held by Australian politicians and citizens in an attempt to spare their lives.

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I'm sure there'll be countless candlelight vigils held by Australian politicians and citizens in an attempt to spare their lives.

I wonder if there will be plenty of bogans flogging the "do the crime do the time" / "their country their rules" horse

I wonder if there will be plenty of bogans flogging the "do the crime do the time" / "their country their rules" horse

About as many as there will be high horse lefties drawing utterly ridiculous comparisons with Australia's treatment of illegal immigrants

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About as many as there will be high horse lefties drawing utterly ridiculous comparisons with Australia's treatment of illegal immigrants

He's got you there leftish

About as many as there will be high horse lefties drawing utterly ridiculous comparisons with Australia's treatment of illegal immigrants

meh... that was a stretch and you know it..

VWL engine swap day may not go ahead...for now.

Had a mechy pressure test the cooling system and check combustion chamber coolant...found a loose hose clamp that was letting air into the system. Engine now running cooler than ever thanks to the 1.3 bar cap (might put the old cap back on to get the temp up a bit when not doing track days).

However, there was a slight trace of oil in cooling system - potentially a slow head gasket leak or what he thinks could be an oil/water heat exchanger that can leak one into the other. May get an oil cooler to bypass this.

$100 later :)

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Anyone have a dashcam?

Tips or advice on a good one?

You must post every video of even the slightest mistake on the roads to a facebook page and act holier than thou

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