What is the difference between drum brake and disc brake?
When buying a car, many of us will struggle to buy it if the wheels of the car are drum brake.
Because some drivers still reject the drum brake. First, they may feel that the drum brake is not beautiful. Second, they may feel that the drum brake is not as safe as the disc brake.
First of all, let's make it clear here that drum brakes can be bought. For daily vehicles, their safety performance is not worse than that of disc brakes.
Now we will find that many motorcycles and electric vehicles have begun to use the wheels of disc brakes. But some cars still use drum brakes on their wheels. So why on earth is this?
reason
In fact, this is mainly because the manufacturer wants to make more profits, because compared with the disc brake, the manufacturing technology and cost of the drum brake are lower than that of the disc brake, which is half or even about 1/3 lower.
Considering the manufacturing costs and expenses, many enterprises prefer to adopt drum brakes.