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LloydDobler
Oct 15, 2005

You shared it with a dick.

I mean, if the brakes are dragging so bad that you can feel the car slowing down, you won't really be able to spin a tire. Jack it up and try spinning the tire. If it spins fairly free, the brakes are fine. On the rear wheels you will either need both off the ground or the car in neutral and they'll naturally be a little harder to turn because you have to also turn other driveline parts, but they should still sort of coast when you stop pushing. Also you can go like 3mph and put it in neutral and see if it comes to a stop fairly quickly. Does it roll when you let off the brake and you're just idling in drive? It should also do that.

The last piece of the puzzle is a dragging brake will get very hot. Go drive it a while and then coast to a stop, get out and see if you can feel any serious heat. Or get a cheap IR thermometer and really check and compare the wheel/brake/hub temperatures. The hot one will be the dragging one.

it can also be a wheel bearing, dragging parking brake, and stuff like that.

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LloydDobler
Oct 15, 2005

You shared it with a dick.

You could save a few bucks by doing the Hella H4 retrofit and then use whatever LED bulb you want, but if you want quality it's still going to be $200 or more.

poo poo, the price has gone way up since the last time I bought a pair. Oh wait it's been a decade. Jesus Christ time flies.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001G72SKQ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1

There are cheap $20 each Chinese versions if you want to experiment and see if the beam pattern is acceptable.

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