Older VehiclesMore than Pads and Rotors (Brake Caliper Replacement)You might be familiar with brake pads and rotors, two components of your vehicle's brakes that have to be regularly serviced. Here's another important component of your brakes: the calipers.Calipers are used in disc brakes, the type of brakes now found in most recently manufactured vehicles. A... Read More Posted in Older Vehicles on March 19, 2023 Them's the Brakes (Brake Rotor Resurfacing)Your vehicle's brakes wear out. It's inevitable. You'll notice it when you step on the brake pedal and feel it harder to stop, or there's vibration when you are braking. Most modern vehicles have disc brakes that each use a brake pad that press on a disc (disc brakes!) called a rotor. The fric... Read More Posted in Older Vehicles on January 15, 2023 A Sticky Brake Situation (Parking Brake Service and Maintenance)We've all been there. You park your vehicle on a steeper than usual hill and worry about it rolling down while you're running your errands. So you decide you'll use the parking brake. When you get back, you release the parking brake, hit the ignition, put it in gear anduh, ohyou can feel the p... Read More Posted in Older Vehicles on October 02, 2022 Growing Old Together (Maintaining an Older Vehicle)More and more of us are hanging on to our vehicles longer. A company by the name of HIS Markit recently released a report that shows the average age of light vehicles in the U.S. is now 11.8 years. Light vehicles are cars, SUVs (sport utility vehicles) and CUVs (compact utility vehicles). In C... Read More Posted in Older Vehicles on September 04, 2022 Bad Vibes (Disc brake rotor problems)If you were to name the most important safety feature on your vehicle right now, what would your answer be? A lot of driving experts would agree that its your brakes. Most newer vehicles use a well-engineered and efficient style of brakes called disc brakes. The name disc brakes comes from one ... Read More Posted in Older Vehicles on July 10, 2022 Slipping into Fall (Driving with ABS Brakes)As the weather changes over from hot to colder, drivers will have to deal with more slippery streets. And it's important to know how to drive with the brakes you have on your vehicle. In the 1970s, anti-lock braking systems (ABS) started to be installed on vehicles and they've been a game chang... Read More Posted in Older Vehicles on June 26, 2022 Time for a Brake (Brake Pad Replacement)Stop! It's one of those things your vehicle has to do consistently and reliably. That's why brake maintenance is vitally important, worthwhile for you to make sure stays up to date.A brake system has many components. If your vehicle has disc brakes, they have pads that make contact with the rot... Read More Posted in Older Vehicles on June 19, 2022 It's Brake Time (Brake Calipers)Race car drivers have demonstrated the advantages of disc brakes, so most modern vehicles use them. Sometimes just the front wheels have disc brakes, but many vehicles now have them all the way around. A major component of the disc brake is called a caliper. It works by squeezing brake pads ag... Read More Posted in Older Vehicles on March 14, 2021 The Need for Speed (Wheel Speed Sensor Maintenance)Today's vehicles have some pretty amazing technology in them, including a computerized braking system we all pretty much take for granted these days. Antilock brake systems (ABS) have been around for years but they help drivers stop in much shorter distances reliably than ever before. When you ... Read More Posted in Older Vehicles on June 28, 2020 What to Do After You Buy a Used Vehicle in Walled LakeSo you've bought a used vehicle in the Walled Lake area. Do you know what you're getting? It is hard to know what you're getting because people in the Walled Lake area sell vehicles for different reasons. Think about why you've sold vehicles. Did you just want something new or were there problem... Read More Posted in Older Vehicles on August 03, 2019 |
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