How to check brake pads/wear

Checking brake pads is a really easy think to do on your car and if you take your car in to the shop and the mechanic says you need new breaks you have tell him no you don’t because you just checked your break pad wear and you have plenty of break pad left.

The First step: Get what you need

A couple of things you are going to need is a break pad lining gauge and some brake cleaner, you can get these from any parts store or hardware store, and then the tools you use to take your tires off.

The Second step: Taking the tires off

For the second step you are going to need to take your tires off all around and to do that you have to jack the car up all the way around to do this you’re going to need to get the jack out prom the trunk of your car and buy some jack stands you will need 4 jack stands to jack up all 4 sides of the car, most cars have a jack in the trunk so you’re going to get that out and with it should be directions on how to jack your car up and if not YouTube is your friend for anything like this. Jacking up the car with the jack that comes with your car seems really sketchy and it is so only lift the car up as high as you need to too get the tire off.   and get your lug nuts off. Once you have the lug nuts off take the tires off, now that you have the tires off your going to want to spray them all with brake clean.

The Third step: Using brake pad gauge

Once you have the breaks spread down with break fluid and cleaned your going to want to get the brake pad lining gauge and use put the tool up the break pad and see which one of its gauges in the thickness of your brake pad. The color of each one of the gauges lets you know how much break pad you have left, Green: you have all of you break pads and you are safe to drive, Yellow: you should start to think about changing your break pads, Red: you should change your brake pads immediately you do not have the much break pad left.