Why Should You Get Regular Brake Service?
When talking about vehicle safety, the brakes undoubtedly play one of the pivotal roles for it. Having said that, if ever you hear grinding or squealing whenever you hit the brake pedal, you’ve got to bring it to a professional technician. As a matter of fact, there are various factors that may be the reason why your car’s braking power is reduced and thus, increasing its braking distance.
By letting pros to inspect it, they are going to do the following, supposed that there really is an issue with the brakes such as flushing brake fluids, replacing of machine rotors, replacing worn brake pads, lubricate caliper slides and other metal contact points, clean and adjust brake shoes and hardware and lastly, examine the brake wear sensors.
Some brake parts wear out and need to be serviced or replaced as time goes by. The brakes of your car may be drum or disc type but there are some that uses both. What the disc brakes do is use the calipers that then utilize the pads to get a firm hold of brake rotor which ultimately slows the vehicle. What the drum brakes do however is, it pushes the shoes in the drum to be able to stop the vehicle. As the shoes and pads wear away, it has to be replaced and the rotors which wear down might have to be replaced at the same time. There are cases to which the rotors could be machined in order to give them new contact surface for pads.
In general, the front brakes have a tendency to quickly worn out, which is because of the reason that the car’s weight is transferred to the front while slowing down, putting more pressure on front brakes. But as technology keeps developing, car manufacturers were able to find a way on how to evenly distribute weight on the vehicle that lessens strains on front brakes.
More modern and luxurious vehicles have built-in brake pad wear sensors which is displaying indicator light when the brakes worn down. The light on dashboard will warn the driver that it needs servicing. It’s just normal to replace the sensors as well the moment that the brakes are serviced. In any car, fluids play a significant role. In relation to this matter, we are more focused on brake fluid that is compressed every single time you hit the brakes which the shoes or pads get contact with the drums or rotors.
By making sure that the brake system of your car is properly working, you can have assurance that you and your passengers will remain safe while driving on road.