Looking for changing your car’s brake pads? Need some help. The task is easy. We furnish here a few easy and simple steps to help you all the way in changing the brake pads of your car. For this, you need to go through these easy steps and follow them.
Purchase the correct brake pads
When you want to change your brake pads, first you need to buy the new brake pads. For purchasing brake pads, you must see your car’s specification manual and tell the car dealer model of your car so that they will show you quality brake pads that matches your car’s brake pad specifications. Choose the best among them and buy it. Generally the brake pads that are of high cost last for long time.
Cool down your car
After you purchase the brake pad, you must cool down your car if you have driven it recently to change the brake pads of your car. It needs to be done because you need to work with hot parts so, you should make sure that they are cool and are safe to touch.
Loosen lug nuts, jack up and remove the wheel
Bring your tool box and with a wrench loosen the lug nuts of the wheel. Using the wrench place the brake pads and then pump up your car by placing the jack in a correct position. Now, it will easy for you to remove the loosen wheel of the car.
Use ring spanner of correct size remove caliper bolts
The caliper is on the brake rotor. It will be helpful to slow down the wheel before it is taken over by the brake pads. Now, with the help of the ring spanner that suits the caliper bolts size, remove the bolts of the caliper gently. Now carefully hang the caliper back to the wheel using a wire.
Blend the brakes:
Before you change the calipers and brake pad, you need to blend the brakes. For this, you remove the cap of the brake master cylinder to blend the brake fluid, which is dirty. Now see the brake fluid is set to bleed before you change the brake pads.
Now, you should find the sequence of the bleed in your car manual and place a plastic tube to the bleeder nipple then, ask some one to pump the brakes, until they experience resistance. If even after compressing, the brake pedal, it shows that there are air bubbles in the system. To remove them again bleed them before you close.
Change old pads with new pads:
Now, change the old brake pads with new ones by removing them and check the level of the brake fluid, if necessary add some fluid and put back the reservoir cap of brake fluid after adding the fluid. Put the caliper back and down the wheel.
Even though the process may be long, you can do it yourself by following the car manual and the aforementioned steps. The manual will be helpful if you are not aware of the terms stated here. They are related to your car because they may be in image form.