As well as tailpipe emissions, cars and other vehicles throw off metal pollutants from wear on various parts. Despite European regulations requiring cleaner materials in vehicles, a study in Stockholm ...

CARS.COM — If you’re lucky, the squealing or squeaking noise that your brakes make when you first drive your car in the morning, particularly after rain or snow, is just surface rust being scraped off ...

Cold morning brake squeal usually comes from normal physics and normal brake materials, not an imminent failure. Overnight ...

Disc brake pads are to brakes what a camshaft is to an engine. Where a cam is critical for defining an engine's power potential, brake pads are vital for successfully and repeatedly decelerating a ...

Just as your gas mileage will vary depending on where and how you drive, so it goes with the life of brake pads (or brake shoes), the friction material that gets pressed against a metal disc (rotor) ...

Let’s talk brakes. You know, that crucial system in your car that keeps you from […] ...

If you notice something strange about the way the brakes in your car or truck feel and head to your favourite search engine to look for answers, then you’re a completely normal human being. Below, ...