Braking technique (for normal driving)
05-03-2002, 05:59 AM
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Braking technique (for normal driving)
Is it best for your car to brake:
a) at the last minute, braking relatively hard to come to a stop
b) Not riding the brakes but a longer brake period before coming to a stop, gradual pressure applied to the brakes
While the answer may be somewhere in the middle, what is better for your car / brakes?
On a scale of 1-5, where:
1 = riding the brakes
5 = stomping on the brakes at the last minute
Where is it preferred (and why)
I think I am between 2-3 but maybe should be closer to 4. I recently had some brake squeek, dealer said it may be due to the brakes getting glazed from long braking.
a) at the last minute, braking relatively hard to come to a stop
b) Not riding the brakes but a longer brake period before coming to a stop, gradual pressure applied to the brakes
While the answer may be somewhere in the middle, what is better for your car / brakes?
On a scale of 1-5, where:
1 = riding the brakes
5 = stomping on the brakes at the last minute
Where is it preferred (and why)
I think I am between 2-3 but maybe should be closer to 4. I recently had some brake squeek, dealer said it may be due to the brakes getting glazed from long braking.
05-03-2002, 07:34 AM
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Smoothness is the key, just like on the racetrack....
You want to roll onto the brakes and apply steady, even force... enough to bring the car to stop.
On the track, you want to do the same thing and once you are at the turn-in point you roll back onto the throttle.
Smooth. Don't jam on the brakes at the last minute, because that will unsettle the car. You shift all the weight to the front and if you have to emergency steer out of the way of something you will spin the car.
You can consider the roll-on/roll-off to be somewhere at the 1.5 to 3 range in your scale above.
Hope that helps.
PeteH
On the track, you want to do the same thing and once you are at the turn-in point you roll back onto the throttle.
Smooth. Don't jam on the brakes at the last minute, because that will unsettle the car. You shift all the weight to the front and if you have to emergency steer out of the way of something you will spin the car.
You can consider the roll-on/roll-off to be somewhere at the 1.5 to 3 range in your scale above.
Hope that helps.
PeteH
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