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parking brake
- Thread starter VLADI
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Hmmm, we were originally talking 'Parking Brakes', weren't we?? 
Then again, it was your thread, and it is clearly of interest, sooo.... :clap:
If you're talking about a kangaroo being hit by or landing on the bonnet/hood of a car, yep, that happens WAAAAYY too often - kangaroos just haven't come to terms with cars & trucks etc, or evolved fast enough to learn to avoid the long black strips of bitumen or cleared bush that all the cars & trucks drive along, travelling much faster than any kangaroo - and the moisture that collects along the roadsides when the temperature drops, especially at dawn & dusk, means there's often moisture & sometimes even freshly growing grass there when there's nothing anywhere else, so the kangaroos are naturally attracted to the roadsides, and especially so at the worst possible times for drivers to be able to see them!! So yeah, there are many, MANY 'accidents' involving kangaroos & vehicles every year - some if not most are fatal, altho more often than not, it'll be the kangaroo that dies... but sometimes it's the occupants of the vehicle too! But be warned, if you happen to hit one while driving your car and you don't kill it, then unless you know what you're doing, stay well clear! Even or especially if they are hurt or injured, they can lash out in fear or pain & inflict some pretty serious injuries - or worse! And that HAS happened - not often, but more often than it should! nojoke
However, if you are talking about the big guys getting annoyed, while that's nowhere near quite as common, but still YES, there have been such cases! Sure, kangaroos NORMALLY aren't aggressive, but if they get injured, cornered, or harrassed, they CAN & WILL protect themselves - and they are far more capable of doing that than most expect!! :shocked: Don't ever let your pet dog chase them, cos unless there's a whole pack of them, any dog without back-up chasing & catching up to/cornering a big kangaroo is quite likely to end up gutted, and in those 'lack of back-up' circumstances, even people can be severely injured! There's been instances where people have approached what they described as 'a cute kangaroo' that was quitely sitting or lying under a tree somewhere, so they were trying to pet it &/or take pictures.... but then they hassled it so much or for so long that the kangaroo simply had enough & lashed out!! And when a kangaroo finally DOES lash out, it's not often a pretty result! :lecturef_smilie:
Just like most wild animals, kangaroos are capable of protecting themselves when driven to it; and once they stop & stand themselves up, at close to 2m tall the Big Red's can be taller than most people, even if they don't often weigh much more than 90 kgs!! Not only are their teeth & jaws designed for eating very short grass & twigs etc embedded in rocks & hard ground (so they are really quite strong) but they are also very capable of inflicting a savage wound... and those back legs are REALLY powerful too - a kangaroo can travel at speeds of up to 70 kph for HOURS & HOURS, and those legs & tail do all the work!! So yeah, if you annoy a kangaroo enough to get it to stop & stand itself up on the very stable tripod formed by both back legs & it's tail, KEEP WELL CLEAR!! Back off, get back in your car - cos you can't out-run them for long, and if they grab you with their front legs/arms & drag you in close (check out the muscles in that second link - that's EXACTLY what those arms are designed to do!
) they can inflict savage bites &/or literally disembowel you with a single kick from one of their back legs & the long 'toe claws' on its tip!! Even if the kick doesn't rip your guts out, a kick from those legs is strong enough to crush bone, so you really don't want to be on the receiving end of one of them!! :yikes:
That said, GENERALLY, kangaroos are fairly placid animals & if approached calmly & gently, they might even let you come close enough to touch them & pet them, but like almost every other non-domesticated animal out there, you really don't want to hound them, chase them, or annoy them! If they are injured &/or 'rescued' young enough, they can be brought up as pets (if circumstances don't allow their return to the wild) but it's not recommended and requires a special permit with lots of conditions & rules about the how & where etc; and even then, you need to make sure they aren't hassled or annoyed too much by people & other pets etc or things can get ugly pretty quickly!! :lecturef_smilie:
Australia - as Dorothea Mackellar so eloquently put it in her poem, I love a sunburnt country (with my apologies for the para-phrasing) is ..... a land of sweeping plains, of rugged mountain ranges, of droughts & flooding rains. I love her far horizons, I love her jewel-sea, her beauty and her terror.... and the terror she's referring to there is not only from the vast land itself, but also to the fact that here, we've probably got more creatures that can kill you than most other places on Earth - and even the smallest of our cute & cuddly looking animals juuuust might be deadly or capable of inflicting horrendous pain! :shocked: So don't be fooled by thinking that any Australian (animal or otherwise ) which might normally seem or even LOOK fairly placid, or even seem to be asleep or maybe stoned right outta it's mind, is all that safe to poke - cos it doesn't really take too much to stir an Aussie up, and you'll never know which one is gonna be the deadly one, until it's too late!
Aaand while it's been an interesting little diversion, maybe we should get back on the topic?? :thumbup:
Then again, it was your thread, and it is clearly of interest, sooo.... :clap:If you're talking about a kangaroo being hit by or landing on the bonnet/hood of a car, yep, that happens WAAAAYY too often - kangaroos just haven't come to terms with cars & trucks etc, or evolved fast enough to learn to avoid the long black strips of bitumen or cleared bush that all the cars & trucks drive along, travelling much faster than any kangaroo - and the moisture that collects along the roadsides when the temperature drops, especially at dawn & dusk, means there's often moisture & sometimes even freshly growing grass there when there's nothing anywhere else, so the kangaroos are naturally attracted to the roadsides, and especially so at the worst possible times for drivers to be able to see them!! So yeah, there are many, MANY 'accidents' involving kangaroos & vehicles every year - some if not most are fatal, altho more often than not, it'll be the kangaroo that dies... but sometimes it's the occupants of the vehicle too! But be warned, if you happen to hit one while driving your car and you don't kill it, then unless you know what you're doing, stay well clear! Even or especially if they are hurt or injured, they can lash out in fear or pain & inflict some pretty serious injuries - or worse! And that HAS happened - not often, but more often than it should! nojoke
However, if you are talking about the big guys getting annoyed, while that's nowhere near quite as common, but still YES, there have been such cases! Sure, kangaroos NORMALLY aren't aggressive, but if they get injured, cornered, or harrassed, they CAN & WILL protect themselves - and they are far more capable of doing that than most expect!! :shocked: Don't ever let your pet dog chase them, cos unless there's a whole pack of them, any dog without back-up chasing & catching up to/cornering a big kangaroo is quite likely to end up gutted, and in those 'lack of back-up' circumstances, even people can be severely injured! There's been instances where people have approached what they described as 'a cute kangaroo' that was quitely sitting or lying under a tree somewhere, so they were trying to pet it &/or take pictures.... but then they hassled it so much or for so long that the kangaroo simply had enough & lashed out!! And when a kangaroo finally DOES lash out, it's not often a pretty result! :lecturef_smilie:
Just like most wild animals, kangaroos are capable of protecting themselves when driven to it; and once they stop & stand themselves up, at close to 2m tall the Big Red's can be taller than most people, even if they don't often weigh much more than 90 kgs!! Not only are their teeth & jaws designed for eating very short grass & twigs etc embedded in rocks & hard ground (so they are really quite strong) but they are also very capable of inflicting a savage wound... and those back legs are REALLY powerful too - a kangaroo can travel at speeds of up to 70 kph for HOURS & HOURS, and those legs & tail do all the work!! So yeah, if you annoy a kangaroo enough to get it to stop & stand itself up on the very stable tripod formed by both back legs & it's tail, KEEP WELL CLEAR!! Back off, get back in your car - cos you can't out-run them for long, and if they grab you with their front legs/arms & drag you in close (check out the muscles in that second link - that's EXACTLY what those arms are designed to do!
) they can inflict savage bites &/or literally disembowel you with a single kick from one of their back legs & the long 'toe claws' on its tip!! Even if the kick doesn't rip your guts out, a kick from those legs is strong enough to crush bone, so you really don't want to be on the receiving end of one of them!! :yikes:That said, GENERALLY, kangaroos are fairly placid animals & if approached calmly & gently, they might even let you come close enough to touch them & pet them, but like almost every other non-domesticated animal out there, you really don't want to hound them, chase them, or annoy them! If they are injured &/or 'rescued' young enough, they can be brought up as pets (if circumstances don't allow their return to the wild) but it's not recommended and requires a special permit with lots of conditions & rules about the how & where etc; and even then, you need to make sure they aren't hassled or annoyed too much by people & other pets etc or things can get ugly pretty quickly!! :lecturef_smilie:
Australia - as Dorothea Mackellar so eloquently put it in her poem, I love a sunburnt country (with my apologies for the para-phrasing) is ..... a land of sweeping plains, of rugged mountain ranges, of droughts & flooding rains. I love her far horizons, I love her jewel-sea, her beauty and her terror.... and the terror she's referring to there is not only from the vast land itself, but also to the fact that here, we've probably got more creatures that can kill you than most other places on Earth - and even the smallest of our cute & cuddly looking animals juuuust might be deadly or capable of inflicting horrendous pain! :shocked: So don't be fooled by thinking that any Australian (animal or otherwise
) which might normally seem or even LOOK fairly placid, or even seem to be asleep or maybe stoned right outta it's mind, is all that safe to poke - cos it doesn't really take too much to stir an Aussie up, and you'll never know which one is gonna be the deadly one, until it's too late! Aaand while it's been an interesting little diversion, maybe we should get back on the topic?? :thumbup:
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VLADI
New member
Guys, I'll raise the subject. After the winter, I wanted to take a ride, on the dashboard there is an inscription of a malfunction of the brake system. And there are almost no brakes. The rear brake circuit was pumped, but the inscription remained. Tell me the pads when worn out can this be? is there any wear-and-tear sensor?
Mikey
Well-known member
I would start by checking your pads, if the pads are good, check your fluid level, the float in that container is very touchy some times it only take a cap full to make the light to go out! The weak brakes could mean you need to bleed the brake system of air! Good luck hope it helps you!!
VLADI
New member
The brake is pumped, the pedal is hard as it should be. The brakes are good and the inscription is lit and the abs and ebd do not work. Pads are not enough judging by the appearance I will change. Could it be because of the pads or not? The inscription lit up and in the fall when braking and when starting went out, then I topped up the liquid and it no longer appeared
VLADI
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https://www.spyderlovers.com/forums/showthread.php?66072-CODE-C1282-brake-failure
error c1282. I found the topic I will try to replace the pads at the back at the beginning. If it is not difficult to tell me about the information on pages 700 and 701 of the service manual where is it in the manual?
error c1282. I found the topic I will try to replace the pads at the back at the beginning. If it is not difficult to tell me about the information on pages 700 and 701 of the service manual where is it in the manual?
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