There are parts to your car that you need to keep aware of. In this age of automated everything on cars, a common thing to happen is the maintenance of the car gets neglected.  Believe me I have seen it all owning a San Diego auto repair shop.

After all, even cheap cars are considered state of the art driving machines like the Hyundai, so it is easy to believe nothing goes wrong.

That is a big mistake.  There are aspects of maintaining your car that still needs to be paid attention to.  Most people do pay attention to things like oil changes.  Although for the life of your car that is important, a lot of people forget their brakes.  Which is of extreme importance to their life and their family’s lives.

So let’s take a look at your brakes and knowing when it is time to change them because they have become unsafe.

The first symptom is when there is grinding or scratching you need to replace your brakes.  Usually this is an indicator that the metal plate that holds the brake pad is gone and now you have it rubbing against the rotor.  This is a bad sign and you definitely need to replace your brakes immediately.

Second symptom is when your brakes make a loud screeching or a high pitch noise.  This is caused by a condition called glazed.  This happens if a person uses the brakes excessively which causes the rotors to get too hot.  The rotors are then burned.  

You fix this by going to a brake shop like my San Diego brake shop.

Vibrations are a third problem.  When your rotors or drums are warped, when you are braking this will cause a vibration.   This happens when too much heat cause them to lose their shape.  If this occurs, you have to replace your rotor.

A final problem to look at is when your brakes pull. What occurs when you are braking is your vehicle want to pull in one direction.  This happens when your brakes caliper is not getting applied evenly.  This happens due to a fluid leak.  To know which side is leaking, you need to have a professional look at it.  How you fix this is by replacing the caliper removing all the air out of the brakes.

These are the common problems with brakes.  When this does happen you need a shop that fixes brakes like we fix San Diego brakes.

When you realize it’s your brakes that stop you from accidents, you never want to neglect this part of your car’s maintenance.