[wparsons]

Anyone claiming the brakes or tires are unsafe needs to rethink how they're driving.

If you expect the car to grip and stop like an F1 car you're going to be sorely disappointed. If you drive reasonably they're plenty safe and good.

If you can lock up the wheels then adding more braking power isn't going to shorten stopping distances at all. The amount of available grip is finite, and it doesn't matter how much power you have over the amount needed to overcome the grip. Now if you add more grip (better tires) you'll find that adding more braking power can help shorten braking distances.

I'll use my car for an example. On the stock tires (or snows) it could EASILY lock up the tires on stock pads. When I switched to 225 width Z2's it could barely trigger the ABS at all with warm tires. New pads/lines/fluid (probably the pads alone did it, but I swapped all together) and it can easily lock them up again.

Now, stopping distances on stock brakes with the sticky tires were most definitely shorter than on stock tires/pads but are even better with sticky tires and new pads.

The lines/fluid do nothing for a single stopping distance, just consistency in feel and heat resistance with repeated stops.