So I drive a front wheel drive sedan and my rear breaks are at 2mm now. Is this incredibly dangerous to be driving with. I don’t drive very far or very fast so I’m not terrified about high speed breaking but nonetheless, is this dangerous?
So I drive a front wheel drive sedan and my rear breaks are at 2mm now. Is this incredibly dangerous to be driving with. I don’t drive very far or very fast so I’m not terrified about high speed breaking but nonetheless, is this dangerous?
As others have said, most of the braking power comes from the front. You can drive safely without rear brakes in 99% of situations. Of course, that 1% is when you need to make an emergency stop and you can’t really predict when that will happen.
That said, 2mm isn’t 0. If you haven’t been ignoring horrible grinding noises, those brakes are still doing something. You only really need to worry when the friction material is almost completely gone, and you’ll know because it sounds terrible. After that you run the risk of overheating and seizing the calipers, which can easily triple the repair cost.