Electric vehicles are heavy, and heavy cars need good brakes. Unfortunately for the owners of almost 32,000 Porsche Taycans in the United States, their EVs have front brake hoses that could crack, ...

Evan Williams is an automotive journalist and mechanical engineering technologist with more than a decade of experience in the industry. He has written for the Toronto Star and AutoTrader Canada and ...

If you’re thinking of a “hot swap,” one of the changeovers near the top of our list would have to be swapping out OEM front drum brakes in favor of a set of front disc brakes. Disc brakes have ...

Luckily, no one was hurt, and the damage to the front of the Fury was minimal-a bent bumper and grille and a few tweaked brackets. If the same thing had happened two days earlier when we were doing 70 ...

How long brakes last largely depends on how the car is driven, but it can also depend on if the car has the ability for regenerative braking and the condition of the rest of the braking system. Here’s ...

Reading through the November 2021 issue ofFour Wheelermagazine and seeing "Brake Time," a drum brake to disc article, put a smile on my face. How perfect, I thought, since I'm in the middle of doing ...

Stopping your vehicle seems easy enough: Press the pedal, and you come to a halt. But that simple action actually sets a complex system in motion. All passenger vehicles sold here today have disc ...

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