Global OEMs haven't used asbestos for a while. They don't want the liability, and it makes logistical sense for them to use brakes that are legal in all markets.
But some low-cost aftermarket replacement brakes imported from countries where it is still legal to manufacture them, have contained asbestos. Asbestos is cheap and functional.
An acquaintance was trying to argue that Lamborghini brakes contained asbestos. There are places where asbestos is the ideal engineering material but my guess is that brakes is not one of them.
You are being uninformatively pedantic, "There are places" is enough context for a throwaway sentence. Analysing every word or phrase is not productive and I think my meaning was clear enough.
I'm not being pedantic, as far as I understand the meaning of your comment. Asbestos is a very good material for making very cheap brakes, and in developing countries brakes are sometimes still made with asbestos for that reason.
I mean… it seems incredibly unlikely, given that the EU banned the manufacture, import and use of asbestos items, except for one extremely narrowly defined case where no acceptable substitute existed at the time (electrolysis diaphragms for chlorine production plants), about 25 years ago. Is their theory that Lamborghini ships the US models to the US brake-less, then adds special US-only brakes, for some reason?
Thanks - I'm in New Zealand where we only banned it in 2016 and I didn't know about EU rules.
It seems unlikely that Lambo would use asbestos. I had made an off-the-cuff bet against a pig-headed acquantance that asbestos brakes were banned here before I knew anything. He rang up his mate with a Lambo who had some other story!
But some low-cost aftermarket replacement brakes imported from countries where it is still legal to manufacture them, have contained asbestos. Asbestos is cheap and functional.