How Rotors Work

Video Transcript

"My name is Richard Goms, we're in Murray, Utah, we're talking about basic car care. I'm going to tell you a little bit about how rotors work on a car. Rotors usually appear on the front of a car and are used for braking. Newer cars do have rotors in the back. The rotor appears on the wheel and it turns as you're going down the road then, when you press on the brakes, hydraulic fluid is pushed through this line into the caliper. The caliper then puts pressure on brakes pads, such as this, this is a brake pad, and that pressure then pushes on the rotor and applies stopping power to that rotor. On many of the brake pads, there's usually a little feeler gage and that feeler gage, when the brakes get too low, will start dragging on the rotor and when you hear that little noise, and it starts when you start backing up, it'll make a noise, and when you start hearing that noise you'll know that the brakes need to be replaced."