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Model specific boards => Golf mk4 => Topic started by: Zayd on 01 July 2012, 15:28
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Hello peeps.
Can anyone elaborate as to which brakes, the front or rear, are used the most on a 1999 MK4 Golf GTI AGU. I did hear somewhere that the rears were actually used more and the fronts only came into play during harder braking. My specialist says the fronts are used more.
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come on mate who ever told you the rear brakes were used more needs shooting. why do think the fronts are bigger? think the rears only account up to 10-20% of braking
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front m8
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Depends what sort of braking you're doing. If you're just pootling about town and braking gently then the rears do most of the braking. Only when you're cracking on and braking hard does the fronts do more.
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During hand break turns the fronts are used 100%
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The rears are hardly used exept if you have a load fat birds in the back or your towing or breaking hard. hence the small disks on the rears ! do an emergancy stop , the car will nose dive at the front cos the front brakes are doing all the work :laugh:
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In an emergency stop, yes the fronts do all the work. But braking gently to a halt will use mostly the rears.
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come on mate who ever told you the rear brakes were used more needs shooting. why do think the fronts are bigger? think the rears only account up to 10-20% of braking
Maybe he does handbrake turn parallel parking a lot?
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In an emergency stop, yes the fronts do all the work. But braking gently to a halt will use mostly the rears.
lol this made me laugh.
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In an emergency stop, yes the fronts do all the work. But braking gently to a halt will use mostly the rears.
lol this made me laugh.
Many things make me laugh as well.
But it's true...
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It's usually 60% front and 40% rear, but the modern electronics will distribute braking according to traction control feedback.
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It's usually 60% front and 40% rear, but the modern electronics will distribute braking according to traction control feedback.
60-40 is what i always thought to
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In an emergency stop, yes the fronts do all the work. But braking gently to a halt will use mostly the rears.
lol this made me laugh.
Many things make me laugh as well.
But it's true...
but its not :laugh:
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It's usually 60% front and 40% rear, but the modern electronics will distribute braking according to traction control feedback.
Ahh - sense at last...
Which is why your front discs are roughly bigger by 60%/40% than your rears....
The same hydraulic pressure goes to the calipers at the front and back unless ABS steps in. Even with gentle braking.
Since the total piston (and pad) area is smaller in the rear calipers, the braking force is smaller by the same amount. Even with gentle braking.
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It's usually 60% front and 40% rear, but the modern electronics will distribute braking according to traction control feedback.
Ahh - sense at last...
Which is why your front discs are roughly bigger by 60%/40% than your rears....
The same hydraulic pressure goes to the calipers at the front and back unless ABS steps in. Even with gentle braking.
Since the total piston area is smaller in the rear calipers, the braking force is smaller by the same amount.
A braking compensator adjusts the hydraulic pressure distribution, but yes hydraulic pressure and friction area have their own merits.
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A braking compensator adjusts the hydraulic pressure distribution, but yes hydraulic pressure and friction area have their own merits.
AFAIK, ABS equipped cars don't have them.
They are only needed on the old fashioned cars without ABS (like Mk2s and previous). And even then they only actually reduce the pressure under heavy braking so the back doesn't lock up.
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Ever wondered why light brakers wear the rear pads & discs out more than the front ones? I had 2 sets of rear brakes on the last car at 140k miles, and one set of fronts. I'm not a heavy braker.
Have a search on TDIClub for rear brake bias, it's interesting reading....
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Maybe you callipers were stickin. I've never heard the rears do more brakin than the front. I have customers who don't heavy brake and they replace the fronts more than the rears
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Ever wondered why light brakers wear the rear pads & discs out more than the front ones? I had 2 sets of rear brakes on the last car at 140k miles, and one set of fronts. I'm not a heavy braker.
Have a search on TDIClub for rear brake bias, it's interesting reading....
lol at viking, never had it my front wear down quicker than the rears. your caliper was sticking mate.
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Have a search on TDIClub for rear brake bias, it's interesting reading....
they drive deisels... i wouldnt trust anything they say
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Have a search on TDIClub for rear brake bias, it's interesting reading....
they drive deisels... i wouldnt trust anything they say
We need a 'like' button.
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Bloody Luddites. :grin:
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Yeah non ABS fitted cars have to have compensators, ABS equipped ones don't.
Pissing things, need one myself :angry:
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i like the like button lmao
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te
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Feck me ive never heard so much gash as some of the replies on this thread. Gotta love the internet for people saying stooooopid things about cars.
Fronts are used more than rears = FACT
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Another 60 / 40 unless you were breaking using the handbrake :grin: