Warning: working on brakes? Don't do this!

[suprf1y]

Originally Posted by BIGTAZ351

If I had my choice ALL of my vehicles would be Disc/Drum....heck I drove 30,000lb trucks with 4 wheel hydraulic drum brakes!

Me too. I see no advantage to rear disc on street driven cars. Drum brake are actually very good at what they do. The only downside is that they build up heat quickly and fade which is not an issue on the street.

You see a lot of people upgrading their drum brakes to disc on models where that's an option. I would NEVER do that.

[B.B._07]

Originally Posted by suprf1y

Me too. I see no advantage to rear disc on street driven cars. Drum brake are actually very good at what they do. The only downside is that they build up heat quickly and fade which is not an issue on the street.

You see a lot of people upgrading their drum brakes to disc on models where that's an option. I would NEVER do that.

I agree that rear drums are superior from a durability and reliability point of view, but they loose out to discs in stopping power. It's not really an issue on a light car like a Yaris or even a Civic but anything bigger and you really need discs in the back to keep the stopping distances down. That's why you don't see rear drums on larger cars or SUV's.