How to Reduce Brake Fade

Video Transcript

"Hi this is Richard Goms, we're in Murray Utah. We're talking about basic car care. I'm going to talk to you a little bit about break fade right now. You experience break fade for instance when you're towing a trailer or you got a lot of weight in your car and maybe you're going down hill, you try to break, the breaks get hot and you start to loose breaking power. The best way to overcome this break fade is whether you're on a flat stretch or whether you're going down hill is to break sooner or shift to a lower gear and don't break as much. The other thing you cam do is tap the breaks. Don't and if your breaks are new don't put a lot of pressure on them within the first 100 to 150 miles. Be sure to stop more in advanced; begin stopping more in advance. And don't don't put hard pressure on the breaks until they break in a little bit."