Brake Fluid Flushin Monroe NC

A brake fluid change swaps the old fluid in your brake lines for fresh, and it is the brake service most people forget until the pedal feels soft.

What It Is

Brake fluid carries the push from your foot to the brakes at each wheel. It soaks up water from the air over the years. Wet fluid boils at a lower temperature, and it rusts the parts inside the system from the inside out.

Changing it means pushing the old fluid out of the lines and replacing it with fresh fluid of the type your car calls for, with no air left behind. Most owner's manuals give the interval in years. If yours has never been done, it is probably due.

Signs You Need It

• The pedal feels soft or spongy, or sinks lower than it used to
• The fluid in the reservoir under the hood is dark rather than clear or light amber
• The interval in the owner's manual has passed, or nobody knows when it was done
• You are having pads and rotors done anyway

How It Goes at Your Address

The job is done at each wheel in turn. The bleed screw on the caliper is opened and old fluid is pushed out until clean fluid follows. The reservoir is kept topped up the whole time so no air gets in. Then the pedal is checked before the car moves.

It pairs well with a pad and rotor job, because the wheels are already off.

Where His Line Is

Fresh fluid does not fix a leak. If the level keeps dropping, the leak has to be found first, and that is a diagnostic job before it is a fluid job.

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