Hyundai

[Bladecutter]

The biggest problem I have with drum brakes is that the self adjusting mechanism rarely ever does what its name implies, and then one day, you don't have rear brakes on one side, and then later, no rear brakes on the other.

Then even later, when you can't stop your car in the snow, you wonder wtf just happened.

Even worse if its a rear wheel drive car, and the rear tires won't stop churning.
I've seen that happen growing up in NYC more times than I could bear.
A car just sitting at a light, its rear tires slowly spinning away, as the big block V-8 just beats the traction of the road surface with its torque at idle.

My gf's PT Cruiser has this same undocumented feature.
There's a reason why rear drum brakes almost never wear out.

Oh, and someone on another forum scored a Sonata SE for ~$16k.
I'm still trying to figure out how they did that.
For $16k, I'd be all over it.

BC.