BAPG provides a complete brake test facility to support any customer’s vehicle brake testing needs: Garage facilities for both light vehicles (passenger cars/light trucks) and heavy vehicles (RV, military, tractor-trailer, buses and construction equipment). Facilities include, among others, hoists, scales, alignment equipment, ballast, and machine shop.

BAPG provides complete instrumentation and computerized data acquisition of the following brake performance parameters: stopping distance, vehicle velocity, pedal force, pedal travel, hydraulic or air line pressure, brake/rotor temperature, booster vacuum, brake torque, individual wheel speeds, parking brake control/cable force, vehicle deceleration, component acceleration.

BAPG has trained personnel skilled in the various areas required to support vehicle brake system testing:

• Technicians experienced with vehicle mechanical build-up (pre-test) and instrumentation installation.
• Performance drivers experienced with both light and heavy vehicles and with the various FMVSS, TSD, SAE, ECE and other industry procedures.
• Engineers experienced with customer program coordination, test supervision, data analysis, problem solving, and test report preparation.

Vehicle brake system testing and development capabilities:

• FMVSS 105 (hydraulic and electric brakes for vehicles over 7716 lbs. GVW)
• FMVSS 135 (hydraulic and electric brakes for vehicles under 7716 lbs. GVW)
• FMVSS 121 (air brake equipped vehicles)
• TSD 105, 135 and 121 (Canadian equivalent of FMVSS 105, 135 and 121)
• SAE J843 (passenger car/light truck hydraulic brake performance)
• ECE Reg 13 (European brake systems)
• Brake system balance evaluation (vehicle stability under braking)
• Brake fade evaluation (vehicle braking effectiveness at high temperatures)
• Magazine brake tests (AMS, Consumer Reports)
• Brake system effectiveness
• Brake system structural test (spike apply test)
• Brake system noise evaluation
• Simulated L.A. city traffic lining wear/brake noise test
• ABS evaluations on various surface coefficients
• Hill-hold testing (parking-brake evaluation) on 15%, 20%, 30% and 60% grades
• Dynamic park brake stops
• Pedal feel evaluation
• Roughness evaluation
• Ability to support complete brake system DVP&R programs
• Brake testing road surfaces, including high-coefficient asphalt and various low-coefficient (wetted) surfaces for ABS testing and development. Off-road (gravel)surfaces also are available for ABS evaluation
• Brake rotor machining with specific runout and disc thickness characteristics, (including first and second order contributions)