Have you ever noticed when choosing a car that many of the inexpensive cars costing tens of thousands often come with front ...

Drum brakes, shown in Figure 14-5, are the oldest type of brakes still on the road. Their main advantage is that they require less hydraulic pressure to stop your vehicle because the brake shoes tend ...

McLaren is breaking auction tradition by selling its 2026 F1 car before it even races. The sale takes place during the Abu Dhabi GP and includes VIP access and a display car. Autoblog may receive a ...

You might not give your car’s brakes much thought until they cause a problem, but there’s a whole world of things happening every time you press the brake pedal. Though most cars today come equipped ...

However, brake components wear over time, especially brake pads in the case of disc brakes and brake shoes for drum brakes.

Even if you are not that passionate about cars, but you drive regularly, you still need to know some basics about brakes. Yes, you press that pedal next to the accelerator, but what exactly happens ...

Drum brakes aren’t as old-fashioned as most people believe, but even so, these wouldn’t be the first choice for the rear wheels of a 3,500 lbs (1600 kg), 200 hp car like the new Volkswagen ID.3. Why ...

Classic Mustang drum brakes have never been big performers. Even when these cars were new, their drum brakes were problematic, noisy, and often pulled badly. Fade was terrible under hard braking, ...

Five years ago, when federal authorities announced that stopping-distance rules for heavy tractors would get stricter, there was talk that this would finally cause a conversion from drum brakes to air ...

Airplanes have been known to use both disc or drum brakes, but what do modern aircraft predominantly use nowadays? Can the older technology still cut it?

Have you noticed that when we choose cars, many of the inexpensive cars costing tens of thousands often come with front disc ...

As you can see in Figure 15-3, you have to remove a bunch of stuff to get to a drum brake. The steps here explain how to do so and what to look for when you finally get to your brakes. Caution: ...