Big brake upgrade???

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For what little it’s worth, everything I have read on the upgrade brakes from various manufacturers has been less than glowing. The consensus seems to be that they may give you a better brake “feel”, but in stopping tests from various speeds, they DO NOT effectively reduce the stopping distance. In winter, I do a lot of downhill driving (returning from the ski slopes every weekend). Admittedly, I use compression braking reasonably well and run stock tires, but the grade is steep enough to have warped rotors on other vehicles. I have never experienced brake fade in the H2.

(In case anyone doesn’t know, compression braking is a fancy term for coasting downhill in a lower gear so that the engine provides some slowing by forcing the pistons to compress the fuel/air mixture in the cylinder.)