When we hit the brakes of a car, does it hold only the front wheels or all the four wheels?

Question

When we hit the brakes of a car, does it hold only the front wheels or all the four wheels?

Answer 1

all 4, but on most cars the fronts are stronger. Some of the newer 3/4 and 1 ton pickups have larger rear brakes for stopping heavy trailers. Even most of those, though, have larger fronts.

Answer 2

all the four.

Answer 3

all 4 wheels are held

Answer 4

All 4...or why would we have 4 brakes?

However, the front brakes tend to grab quicker than the rear in most vehicles because most vehicles have front disc, rear drum brakes.

Answer 5

This puzzled me for a while on a car I had.

With the car jacked up the rear brakes did not lock on as solid as I was expecting.

Yet when it went for the MOT(car roadworthy test) the brakes showed up as fine.

So in a nutshell all 4 wheels should stop but usually with brake bias being 70/30 front and rear.

Answer 6

An easy way to find out for sure is to put the car in reverse, back-up and then hit the brakes.  If the back end of the car dips down, then the back brakes are grabbing.

When stopping the car, the front brakes do most of the work, but all four wheels should be braking at the same time.

On cars with drum brakes on the rear and disc on the front, sometimes the rear brakes come out of adjustment, and they don't make contact with the brake drum as much as they should.

(Usually the emergency brake activates the rear brakes only)

Answer 7

all 4, but more braking is done by the front.

the front wheels do 70-80% of the braking, depending if its front or rear wheel drive.

Answer 8

Well what do you think? It must be holding four wheels, or else your two wheels would be out of control.