Intrepid Recommend or Not?

Personally, I think you are being taken for a ride by your service
dept.

 

Most people would be very surprised to find out that, in most cars,
pumping the brakes typically twice during moderate or even light
acceleration will result in almost no brakes (also due to depletion of
the vacuum reservoir with low manifold vacuum to replenish it). This
has little practical implication because it's not often that one would
be braking and accelerating at the same time. But lock the brakes while
in gear and pressing on the gas and pump the brakes once or twice and
you'll see what I mean, or do it while in motion with no other cars
around.

Bill Putney
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