What is the difference between a cars brake rotor and a brake drum? What could it cost on a 2004 ford focus?
What is the difference between a cars brake rotor and a brake drum? What could it cost on a 2004 ford focus?
Look them up on your search bar to see a photo of each of them.
They are different braking mechanisms. In your case, likely the front brakes uses the rotor system and rear brakes uses the drum system.
With drum brakes, the brake shoes expand to press against the inside of the drum. With disc brakes, the pads are squeezed against the inner and outer rotor surfaces by a caliper. Neither should be very expensive. Do your own research, go to any auto parts store website.
A rotor is used for disc brakes a brake drum is used for drum brakes. Disc brakes are always on the front rears can be one or the other. Either one probably range from $30 to $100
A rotor looks like a plate (flat disc) and the brake pads squeeze it from the outside
A drum looks like a deep pie dish and the brake shoes expand against it from the inside.
Old cars had drum brakes all around. Not so old cars had discs in the front and drums in the rear. Modern cars have discs all the way around. Disc brakes are acknowledged to be better.
These days most cars have disc brakes on both the front and the back. But years ago, most cars would have disc brakes in the front, and drum brakes in the back. A rotor is like a frisbee with a circle through the middle, a brake drum is like a small garbage can lid. You need brake pads for the first, brake shoes for the second. My car, as well as my previous car, both Toyotas, are set up like that. For a 2004 car, I don't know. Go take a look at them. Do they look the same in the front and back, or do they look different?
A brake rotor is a round piece of metal that goes together with disc brakes usually on the front of the vehicle a brake drum is the large piece of metal that encompasses shoe type brakes that are usually found in the back. So what do you need do you need brake drums or do you need brake rotors? On a 2004 vehicle I wouldn't be spending a lot of money call your local junkyard your salvage yard and get them for like twenty bucks. Instead of going to the auto parts store in spending like 60 bucks a piece for them.
They are differently configured parts. Brake rotors are disks which work to stop the car when brake pads in the caliper squeeze on them. Brake drums are cylindrical and closed on one side and work to stop the car when brake shoes inside expand to rub on the flat circumference of the drum. To make it easier for you, a brake disk is like a dinner plate and a brake drum is like a soup kettle. Car part stores will give you a price on each item you ask for. Ford dealers part departments also will tell you their price.
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