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There are a lot of parts to your car you need to keep an eye on. In today’s times when autos have everything automatically, most of the times your cars maintenance gets neglected.  Believe me I have seen it all owning a San Diego auto repair shop.

After all cars that were considered economic cars like Hyundai’s, are now state of the art machines, it’s not that hard to think nothing goes wrong.

That is a huge mistake.  There are still going to be parts of your car that need to be paid attention to and maintained.  Most people do pay attention to things like oil changes.  Although that is important for the life of your car, what most people neglect is their brakes.  Which is important to the life of themselves and their family.

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

First sign of brakes needed to be replaced is when they grind or scratch.  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 when a person constantly does excessive braking causing the rotors to get too hot.  The rotors then are burned.  

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

Vibrations are a third problem.  If you have warped rotors and drums, braking will cause a vibration. This happens when their is too much heat and this causesthem to lose their shape.  When it occurs, your rotor has to be replaced.

A final issue to examine is when your brakes are pullling.  When you are braking, what will happen is your vehicle is pulled in one direction.  This happens when your brakes caliper is not getting applied evenly.  This happens due to a fluid leak.  To find out which side is leaking, you are going to need a mechanic to take a look at it.  You can fix this by removing the air out of the brakes and replacing the caliper.

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 consider your brakes are what prevents you from having accidents and running into things, this is a part of your car’s maintenance, you never want to neglect.

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