Last article we talked about the Anti Locking Braking System or the ABS which is of course useful for the first time drivers and professional drivers’ alike. This helps the vehicle from locking during braking. What we are going to know today is about the brake system and how does it work. For us to know our vehicles better, we should also know some of the basic parts of a vehicle in order for us to use it efficiently and safely. The brakes are a very important part of a vehicle whether it be an old or a new car, it is totally indispensable. This is of course to be able to stop your vehicle whenever you wanted to. And of course, as we all know, when we push down the brakes, it slows the vehicle until it stops.

So to describe it more clearly, the brake system is rather very simple. Using your foot, place it on the brake pedal and apply pressure thus, applying pressure and transmit force from your foot to its brakes through a fluid or a brake fluid that is. However, as the brakes actually require a much greater force than what you can apply with your leg. With this situations, the vehicles have different and methods in multiplying the force of your foot through; mechanical advantage and hydraulic force multiplication.Friction has an important role regarding brakes. The brakes will transmit the force of the tires by using the friction and then the tires also transmit the force to the road using friction. So basically, that is the common principle of how a brake works in your vehicle.

Did you know that there are different kinds of brakes? Each vehicle is designed to a certain kind of brakes. Of course it has the same principle but it also has different kinds on how iit works in different vehicles. These types of brakes are disc brakes, drum brakes, hydraulic breaks, and regenerative brakes that are used in hybrid vehicles.

For the disc brakes, this is for the slowing or even stopping the rotation of a wheel. A brake disc or what is commonly known as a rotor is made up of cast iron or ceramic and it is basically connected to the wheel or the axle. In order for the wheel to stop turning, a friction material in a form of a brake pad is forced mechanically or hydraulically against both sides of the disc. The friction will cause the attached wheel to slow down or even stop the vehicle from moving.

The drum brakes on the other hand produces friction caused by a set of shoes or pads that will press against the inner surface of a rotating drum. The drum I by the way connected to a rotating wheel. The hydraulic brakes however is an arrangement of braking system which uses hydraulic fluid, normally some type of light viscosity petroleum oil that will in turn transfer pressure from the controlling unit. A regenerative brake is an a system or device which allows a vehicle to store part of the kinetic energy that would be lost to heat when braking.At Easy Sports Car Hire, whichever brake system is used in our cars, we are sure that the brake system is in perfect condition because we cautiously and critically double check the vehicles performance and it parts.