Brake proportioning valves have been around for a long time - before electronic controls.
Also, drum brakes have a return spring. Not sure that disc brakes have one.
Brake proportioning valves have been around for a long time - before electronic controls.
Also, drum brakes have a return spring. Not sure that disc brakes have one.
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View my fuel log 2015 Mirage ES 1.2 manual: 49.6 mpg (US) ... 21.1 km/L ... 4.7 L/100 km ... 59.5 mpg (Imp)
I drive my car pretty easily like Foama does. I just checked my rear brakes at 100,000 miles and I still have at least 50% of the linings left (see below). This is not the typical wear that an average Mirage owner can expect...
Another consideration with drum brakes is that the brake shoes can get out of adjustment over time as the shoes wear. This means the shoes must move a longer distance to contact the drum when you apply the brakes…which leads to reduced rear braking. Your front brake pads can be firmly contacting the rotors while your rear brake shoes are barely touching the drums.
If you have noticed that you are getting an extra click or two out of your parking brake when you set it, then your rear brakes may be out of adjustment.
Drum brakes are supposed to automatically adjust, but sometimes the automatic adjusting function just doesn’t work very well. If you own a 2014-2015 sold in North America (see pic above of my brakes), there’s not much you can do because of the adjustment mechanism used in these specific models. For all other Mirages, the rear brakes will have a traditional “star-wheel” adjuster you can use to adjust the brake shoes outward more precisely.
When I rotate tires on my cars with drum brakes, I will slide the drums off and adjust the brake shoes manually. In almost all cases, the shoes are slightly out of adjustment and I can usually get at least 2-3 clicks out of the star wheel adjusters (which moves the brake shoes outward closer to the drum). An extra click or two may not seem like a lot, but you can feel a difference in the brakes.
In my last car, I could tell how well my rear brakes were adjusted based on the number of clicks I got pulling up on the parking brake handle. Every couple of clicks of brake adjustment was one less click required when pulling up the parking brake handle.
Last edited by Top_Fuel; 07-22-2021 at 06:16 PM.
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View my fuel log 2015 Mirage ES 1.2 manual: 52.2 mpg (US) ... 22.2 km/L ... 4.5 L/100 km ... 62.6 mpg (Imp)
inuvik (07-22-2021)
by default the front portion of the car is heavier because of the engine placement and our car is equipped with brake load distribution valve so by this its obvious that front brake work harder than the rear, and also you can observed that you change front brake pads more often than rear brake shoe.
mohammad (07-23-2021)