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What types of skid occur when the brakes are applied so hard that the front or rear wheels lose traction?
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What skid occurs when the brakes are applied so hard that the front or rear wheels lose traction?
Braking
What kind of skid occurs when the brakes are applied so hard that the front or rear wheels lose traction?
For rear drive cars - it's called a fishtail. You brakes work better on the front. Anybody who sailed over the handlebars when braking just the front wheel on a bike is called a head plant, (ouch)
What kind of skids occurs when the brakes are applied so hard that the front or rear wheels lose traction?
For rear drive cars - it's called a fishtail. You brakes work better on the front. Anybody who sailed over the handlebars when braking just the front wheel on a bike is called a head plant, (ouch)
What is the advantage of rolling wheels over sliding wheels in an emergency?
Rolling wheels have more traction than sliding wheels. Thus you have more control. To illustrate; If you were in a turn and either locked the brakes or accelerated too fast the rear wheels loose traction and the rear of the car starts to pass the front of the car.
How difficult is it to change emergency brakes to front wheels?
There are no emergency brakes on the front wheels of vehicles.
2002 Alero front wheels make bumping noise when brakes are applied?
Probably scoured or warped rotors.
Why are the rear wheels in trucks broader than the front wheels?
for better traction!!
What is the difference between front and rear wheel drive?
In front wheel drive the traction comes from the front wheels while in rear wheel drive traction power comes from the rear wheels.
Why are the rear wheels of a truck more broaden as compared to front wheels?
They are broader for better traction.
Is the 1991 caprice classic front brakes or rear?
brakes on all 4 wheels
Which pair of wheelsfront wheels or rear wheels does stop when you apply handbreaks and which pair stops when you apply breaks?
On most cars the handbrake is applied to the rear wheels only. The footbrake applies to both the front and back brakes, with a bais to the front to help avoid the rear wheels locking up under heavy braking.
Why aren't hydraulic brakes used for rear wheels when the same is used for the front wheels?
All modern mass-produced cars and light trucks DO have hydraulic brakes on the front and the rear wheels. Heavy trucks generally have air brakes on all the wheels. Maybe you are thinking of cars that have disk brakes on the front and drum brakes on the rear? On cars, these are both hydraulically operated using the same hydraulic (brake) fluid. In normal stopping situations, the front brakes do more work than the rear brakes. Maybe 70 or 80% of the braking is done by the front wheels (it depends on where the weight is in the car and how fast you stop). Disk brakes are a somewhat better brake for a car, but drum brakes are a little cheaper to manufacture. So, disk brakes are almost always used on the front wheels where the braking is more important. Drum brakes are used on the back of some cars to save money. Note that performance cars (sports cars) almost always have disk brakes on all of the wheels.
