The brake system of motorcycles, trucks and cars are made up of a number of parts. The braking system stops the vehicle by translating the driver’s action into physical force. Your vehicle’s brake pads are one of those parts. The brake pads are very important components in the brake system.
It applies friction and pressure and contacts to a vehicle’s brake rotors, in some vehicles, you can see flat and shiny discs just behind the wheels. The friction and the pressure applied to the brake rotor effects on wheel to slow and stops. Based on the vehicle weight and the wheels rotation speed the brake pads undergo the stress while slow down or come to stop. If weight and speed are high, the stress on the brake pads is high.
- Organic brake pads: The organic brake pads are made from natural materials like resins, rubber and glass. Resins can bare high heat. Sometimes organic brake pads are also called as non-asbestos organic brake pads, because of these are made from natural materials without using asbestos. The Kevlar is another important component in most of the organic brake pads. These are made of materials and while wear they do not pollute. The organic brake pads are softer so they wear faster and while they are wearing, create more dust than the other types of brake pads. Therefore, these brake pads are not suitable for the high performance car or heavy vehicles like trucks those who are go faster and carry heavy weights. Lightweight and lower speed vehicles like small cars are the best suitable for these pads.
- Ceramic brake pads: The ceramic brake pads are very expensive. These are very lightweight, wear well over time and offer great breaking performance. These are building up with small amounts of copper fibers, bonding agents, filler material and ceramic fibers. The ceramic dissipate heat well, because even after repeated hard spots the performance keeps strong. These will produce less dust and it is in lighter in color, which does not stick to the wheels. The racing sports cars will get the benefits with ceramic brake pads, for other types of vehicles may not deserve and extra cost.
- Performance brake pads: The brakes are not only helps to stop the car; these are aid at the turnings of the car. The ability of dissipate heat is one of the most important components in high performance brake pads. In the performance, brake pads mostly use the ceramic and carbon fiber. Both are well at dissipating heat and lightweight. The high performance brake pads are using in racecars. These are very expensive.
- Metallic brake pads: Most of the vehicles today have the metallic brake pads. These are made up with a mix of graphite, steel, copper, and iron and bonded to pad material. These are durable, cost effective, and good at transferring heat and gives good performance. Than any other type of brake pad, these will cause more wear on brake rotors.
For the trucks, generally the ceramic and organic brake pads are used. Because of its weight at high way, speed needs more heat bearer. In the motorcycles, ceramic and organic brake pads are commonly used.
