Here Is How Your Brake Pads Work

The team at Morong Falmouth Mazda in Falmouth, ME is here to explain how your brake pads work. Once you press the pedal, the brake pads react by contacting your rotor. This then causes friction that slows down your car and then stops it. However, brake pads are a highly interconnected system. This implies that there’re many things going on once you press them.

First, on pressing down the pedal, the cylinder gets activated, and then it sends brake fluid through the hoses and then to the calipers. These will then engage the brake pads. It’s the pads that will then apply enough pressure to the rotor, which is linked to the wheel directly.

Based on the force you used to press the brake pedal, a friction force will be created to either slow down or stop your vehicle completely. This whole process will automatically reverse when you lift your foot off the brake pedal. The fluid will move back to the hoses so that your wheels get back on the move again.