Posts Tagged ‘Disc Brakes’

Your brakes are extremely important as you drive around town. Having good brakes just keeps you out of trouble, and you’ll want to carefully maintain your brakes. With disc brakes, brake pads rub on a disc – or rotor – to slow the wheels. The brake pads are attached to a caliper that squeezes the…

If you feel your vehicle vibrating when you’re braking, or if you don’t stop in as short a distance as you used to, it may be time to have your brakes checked. All newer vehicles have disc brakes in the front, and more manufacturers are using disc brakes all around (instead of an older technology…

Basically, the power brake system helps you provide braking power so that you don’t have to do all the work with your brake pedal.  The brakes themselves are applied at the wheel using hydraulic pressure.  When we step on the brake pedal, we create pressure in the power booster that’s multiplied by vacuum from the…