Press the brake pedal, and the effect is amplified. "It takes a lot of energy to power the motor and thus turn the rotor ...

Air in the brake system can make your brake pedal feel spongy and vague. You should flush the fluid every two or three years, ...

Before Jaguar created the car that changed automotive braking forever, cars used drum brakes, which were inefficient. Moving on from drums, discs and air brakes provide more stopping power.

Put it all together and here’s how car brakes work in a nutshell: drivers generate hydraulic pressure by pressing the brake pedal, and that pressure travels to the brake caliper (or drum ...

According to him, if a disc brake is 100% effective, a drum can only give 80% at most. The vehicle stability system partly determines the use of the two discs for a car. Those with this feature ...

Servicing brakes 25 years ago required few decisions other than choosing a mechanic. Disc and drum brakes used only two types of friction materials—semimetallic and asbestos. The mechanic simply ...

It was about being able to stop the car from, say, 180mph down the Mulsanne. With the drum brakes most would fade and you’d end up going down the escape road because you’d ran out of brakes.

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A clever departure from both normal disc practice and Porsche's past discs, the Ate brake features a hand-operated drum brake nestling within the normal-looking disc. Meanwhile, the "standard ...