DISCS ALL ROUND
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• The Master van now has 16in wheels and the brakes have been considerably °prated with discs all round (305mm ventilated discs with two-piston calipers up front; 305mm solid discs with single-piston calipers to the rear). Chassis-cab versions retain the older disc/drum setup,
Unlike Mercedes-Benz, Renault does not fit separate drums to the rear axle for the parking brake; a new control system makes this unnecessary. The result of the all-disc setup is greatly improved resistance to fade. At Renault's test track we made repeated full-power stops from 100km/h in a Master laden to 2.7 tonnes: by the third time the front wheels were hot to the touch but the van still stopped In around 46m at an average of better than 0.8g.
Brake feel was unchanged, and this performance was all the more impressive in that the van had done around 4.0 or 50 high-speed stops already that day.