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The brake system is designed to slow or stop your vehicle. When you are driving along and you need to stop your vehicle, you press down on your brake pedal and your car comes to a stop. In order for all of this to happen, the brake system in your vehicle is doing all the things it was designed to do.

Because you don’t have enough force to stop the car by yourself, the brake system is designed to multiply your force in order to squeeze the brake rotors or push on the brake drums hard enough to stop your vehicle. A lot of friction is needed to get your vehicle slowed down, which is why we need the help of the hydraulic brake system.

The Brake System has many components. There is a hydraulic system that includes a master cylinder, brake pads, shoes, and slave cylinders. There is a complete complex system around the anti-lock brake system (ABS). These vehicles will also have an emergency brake that is controlled by either a hand lever or a separate pedal to the left of the brake pedal.

The anti-lock system is used to help prevent your tires from locking up on the road. During wet or slick conditions, these are sometimes used more often because under these conditions the road is more slippery. If you were to lock up your brakes because you needed to stop really fast, and at the same time you needed to turn to prevent hitting something, if you wheels were locked up where the rubber of the tire was sliding on the road, you would not be able to turn. The anti-lock system helps prevent them from getting locked up.

The anti-lock brake systems will prevent the tires from locking up and allow you to stop faster and still turn the vehicle while stopping. This ABS configuration uses a computer built into your vehicle as well as wheel sensors to tell how fast the wheel is spinning. All of this is used in conjunction to make the ABS work.

The hydrologic part is designed to push the pads or extend the shoes to the drum. It’s important to keep these parts, like the pads and shoes that are replaceable, serviced in order to prevent damage to the calibers or rotors. The brake pads and shoes should be replaced about every 50,000 miles depending on your driving habits. It’s also important to keep the brake fluid in your vehicle flushed because it can build up contaminates such as condensation and can turn your fluid into a black color. Those contaminates can also ruin parts of your hydrologic brake system. About every 30,000 to 50,000 miles it should be flushed.

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