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Maintenance Tips for Car Owners
A - tomotive friction materials, marketing the popular Bendix brand of products, FMP Automotive Malaysia has shared the following tips for car owners to tell whether their brake pads are running low and are due for replacement:
Look, Listen & Feel
Look : Visual check
It's possible to look at brake pads and identify wear and tear. Pads should be visible by look- ing through the rims of the car's wheel - the outside pad is pressed against a metal rotor. There should be at least three millime- tres of the pad visible. If you see anything less, get the brake pads inspected.
Listen : Loud screeching
This is the sound of the wear in- dicator (show wear indicator sam- ple). When enough of the friction material is worn away, the wear indicator will contact the disc and make a squealing sound. This means it is time for new brake pads.
If you hear a grinding sound, that means the friction material is sound is cause by two pieces of metal rubbing against each other. This can scratch your disc ro- tor, creating an uneven surface. When this happen, don’t be sur-
prised if your mechanic tells you that your disc ro- tor needs to be skimmed or even replaced.
Look: Electronic wear sensor
This is added safety fea- ture on mostly continental cars. When the brake pad wears and the electronic brake wear sensor makes contact with the rotor, a warning is given, usually in the form of a light on the vehicle dashboard.
Feel : Vibration
If the brake pedal vibrates when you push your foot down on it, they could be warped due to heat.
Once you have sensed any of the abovementioned signs, what’s next? Send your car to a professional mechanic for a thorough check on your brake system! Here’s what you can expect to see in the workshop, when the mechan- ic is checking on the braking system (brake pad, disc rotor,
Brake Pad
By visual, tools or check- ing at the feature on prod- ucts, such as the Bendix brake wear indicator. This indicator is the latest inno-
看，听及感觉
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