CARS.COM — If you’re lucky, the squealing or squeaking noise that your brakes make when you first drive your car in the morning, particularly after rain or snow, is just surface rust being scraped off ...
Dear Tom, Every time I hit the brake pedal, my brakes make this awful high-pitched squeal. When I stop at a light I get stares from people. It’s embarrassing! I just had the brakes done last month, so ...
Best friend and spanner mate Peter came over yesterday for a full day of fiddling with our cars.The first job was to replace ...
The braking system is one of the most important but least glamorous parts of any vehicle — so what do you do if your brakes squeak? Generally, you can’t see the braking system. Most don’t do anything ...
Replacing brake calipers, pads, and rotors is a straightforward task on most cars. If you’re even slightly competent and confident with tools, this is generally a task you can take on yourself. That ...
The brakes on my wife’s 2017 Acura ILX were pulsating. The car has less than 50,000 kilometres on the odometer. My mechanic said the rear rotors were warped so I had them replaced. I asked why the ...
Somebody once wrote, "you become a folk guitarist to meet girls, but you end up talking to other middle-aged men about your fingernails." By the same token, I became a track rat to experience high ...
The panic trickled from my eyeballs to my toes when I answered my dad’s phone call at 1 a.m. on that Saturday night. I was one beer deep into my roommate’s 21st birthday celebration at a bar in Mizzou ...
Just saw a Globe and Mail newspaper article in the Ontario edition from Mar 18, 2010, that recommends changing brake fluid every two years. Do you still recommend this frequency even with all the ...
Rim brakes have declined in their usage in recent times. Pro bikes through to entry-level models come with disc brakes of one sort or another, and commuter bikes too have made the switch too in order ...
The braking system is one of the most important but least glamorous parts of any vehicle - so what do you do if your brakes squeak? Generally, you can't see the braking system. Most don't do anything ...