Winterizing a Car: Checking Brake Pads

Video Transcript

"Checking your brakes. On most of your new cars today, they have some type of mag slotted wheel. When checking your tires as we did before, while you're checking a tire, it only takes a second to check the brakes. Safety is your main reason for checking these items. You don't want to get stuck somewhere with costly repairs. Your brakes, once it gets past that wear pad, it starts chewing up the rotors. You'll have to replace the rotors, that would be more of an expense. So, you know, these are items you could check weekly, or monthly, or by season to give you some type of indication when maintenance is going to need to be performed, or parts, or tires replaced. You want to check this all year round, not just in your winter months. You're only talking about a minute to check four tires and your front, and rear brakes. It's worth checking them to save you some money in your pocket, or time spent stuck on the side of the road. This particular car, you can look right through the wheel, right here, and there's a wear plate. Here is your wear plate on your disk brake pad, as you can see, there's room between the rotor and that wear plate indicating you have many miles to go before using, needing a brake job. On a closed wheel, you'll actually have to pull a wheel off to inspect it."