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pedal response is the ratio between brake power change and pedal travel... the more brake power you get for the same pedal travel means your brakes are more responsive... this has nothing to do with how powerful your brakes are

brake fade resistance is the amount of heat the brake components (basically rotors and pads) can take before brake performance begins to suffer... this depends on pad and rotors material as well as the driving conditions and ventilation

now given a standard issue 1.5 SOHC lanos it has the 236mm rotors and those are just enough for a senior citizen doing 60 on cairo alex highway... this setup is inherently week due to the very low brake fade resistance as well as low responsive pedal... this responsiveness issue is also found in other daewoo models and it is mainly because the rear drum setup that required periodic manual adjustment

the 1.6 DOHC lanos have 256 mm rotors and bigger brake pads and that dramatically enhanced fade resistance and added more to the safety margin of this car specially that it is accompanied with 14" rims and 185/60/14 tires

with the 236mm rotors i used to smoke the pads easily and in many instances i had no brakes whatsoever due to brake fade and that was on "in town" streets were speeds never exceeded 100 KPH... with the 256 setup i managed to brake from 170 KPH to some 60 KPH with no problems at all... i have never succeeded in making my pads smoke with the upgraded setup so this is clear evidence that the brake fade resistance was dramatically enhanced

this upgrade however didn't do much to pedal response as it is related to the rear setup... this was cured by swapping in the rear assembly of a '94 2000cc opel vectra which is a rear disk assembly and it doesn't require any manual adjustment thus keeping pedal response at its best

i have no idea why did Daewoo use this pathetic setup on the 1.5 SOHC cars... the car is heavy indeed and that is the most critical issue here... other cars that weight less tha the lanos can do with such setup but this car simply can't

also bear in mind that this car was developed in 1997 and production was seized at 2003 so forget about any future development or enhancements

MMamdouh