How often should you change the brakes on a car or Minivan?”
Inspect Your Brakes Tuesday, November 25, 2008 Avg. Reading Time: 1 Min, 30 Seconds Brakes are pretty much the most important safety device on your car. If you’ve even partially lost your brakes in the past, you’ll remember the change of underwear that followed. Inspecting your brakes twice a year for wear and damage can protect you and your passengers while saving you money by catching any damage before it becomes too costly. On many cars you can inspect the brakes without even removing the wheel. If your car has alloy wheels with spaces in the middle, you can get a proper assessment done by just peeping through the hole at the goodies. Whether you can peep through your wheel or you have to take the wheel off, be sure you have a clear view of the brake pads and the big shiny disc. Let’s inspect the disc first. It should be shiny from the inside to the outer edge, and fairly uniform. Don’t worry if you can see slight lines in it, this is normal wear. However, if there are any rough spo
