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Originally Posted by gmeteer
Those vintage Rolls have braking systems that are somewhat different than the normal US or European designed cars, and I believe they are known for expensive trouble. I am not real familiar with them, I just recall over the years hearing about this issue, usually with symbols like: *!!# @<*!! Before purchasing you might want a Rolls expert to look it over.
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Accumulator failures to be exact. They can be rebuilt on a bench by a Rolls tech in a few hours, but really the whole system has to be worked on at the same time, It's a air/hydro ram setup. I used to work as a wrench for a Cadillac/Rolls dealer here in Denver, everything is expensive, everything is hand made, and you need a lot of special tools.
There are two dash brake indicatiors that shown when the system is in trouble. Even if the lights go out after startup its the amount of time it takes, and that shows problems.
The electric gear shift system is a nightmare to work on, that guy can get as expensive as the car to repair.
What it comes down to is Rolls doesn't do anything like anyone else does, so it gets expensive really, really fast.