Tough Volvo Brake Pads

Anthony Fontanelle
October 16, 2007

One of the many parts essentially included in the brake system of one’s Volvo car product is a Volvo brake pad. Volvo brake pads are basically friction pads employed in tandem with disc brakes. Volvo brake pads operate in very much the same way as brake shoes do--basically fulfilling the same function of being able to reduce the harmful effects of friction or abrasion inflicted on the system. Each and every single pad assembly is made up of a steel plate. This is where the lining is bonded or riveted. The lining, in turn, is a composite material similar to that found in drum brakes. Brake pads, of course, like a great many products that cater to a great many model specs, are built and designed quite differently to address the need for variety. Volvo brake pads then can be bought in varying specs and models. This, of course, depends a great deal on the design of the caliper that the brake pads have to work with. Pads are held in the caliper by clips, pins, or yes, even by locating lugs. Several of these brakes employ anti-rattle springs on the pads that fortify the said devices against the kind of damages brought on by shocks that happen to be too strong. Such damages, after all, can prove potentially tragic to particular parts of one's car.

It is never good to have cracks or any other form of seam in the brake pads since these impairments can affect not merely the performance of the brake pads alone, but of the entire system as well. It is for this very reason why the anti-rattle quality was incorporated into the item. Thus, whenever occasions of strong system shocks occur, the brake pads are kept safe, more so than a number of other parts. In addition, this very same quality also makes things go quite easy on the part of the driver or owner since the brake pads extend and maintain high brake system performance. And there are less replacements, less brake system problems, to worry one's head over. A number of fixed caliper brakes are built to allow for the easy as well as effortless removal of the pad that no longer needs to demount the caliper and attach it back on the system on a later date. Pads that are found in the caliper brakes system are pads that, more often than not, wear quite evenly over an entire surface.

However, the inboard, or the piston side pads that are located on several floating caliper brakes also have the tendency to wear and deteriorate in a tapered pattern. This effect on the material is largely the result of methods that are employed to secure the caliper in place and the torque forces that are produced whenever the car halts and steps down hard on the brakes. A wear pattern that exhibits tapered qualities on floating caliper brakes need not cause any great distress on the part of the driver or car owner. So long, of course, that the wear the device exhibits is well within 1/8 inch all across the surface of the pad. More than that and the owner will already have a bit of trouble on his or her hands soon if he or she does not replace them. Exceeding that measure, after all, indicates that the wear has already gone to the core of the device. That is, the device will no longer be able to support standard operating pressures quite that well again and thus, would only hinder rather than help along, aumomotive braking system processes.

Source:  Amazines.com