Quote:Well, interestingly enough, this isn't always true. A Sydney based brake specialst [Better Breakes] ran an advertising campaign that suggested that in order to find out how your brakes were, to let someone else drive the car.

The general thrust of this is that as the brake pedal progressively got lower & lower as the brake linings wore in normal service, the driver was unaware of this as he /she became accutomed to the microscopicly lower position of the pedal with each application. It took another person to pick up the fact that the pedal was on the floor. Well, that was the theory & it was a long time ago.

I believe that the same thing can apply to engine state of tune, The timing can be off & the engine just a little harder to start & many would not realise it. It's only when it becomes a slug to drive & a real pain to start that many people realise that something is wrong.

I always checked my points with a dwell angle meter at 1000 miles after fitment of new points, then again at about the 3000 mile mark & about every 3000 miles after that untill i determined that replacement was waranted. The cycle was then started over again.
That engine never ever let me down.