If your brakes are losing their bite on push down of the brake pedal, you need to have them checked.
Your brakes are the most important safety system part of your car, brakes control the speed of your vehicle and will stop the car. The brake pedal is the first pedal you will hit in an emergency,so you need to make sure they all work correctly in tandem.

Like anything on your car, your brakes need to be regularly maintained and inspected preferably by professionals to make sure they keep working correctly and effectively.

Your annual MOT or annual Servicing are both times for a qualified car mechanic or technician to review the condition of your brakes. They will also be always on the lookout for warning signs that tell you your brakes are not in the best condition that they can be.

HERE ARE 5 SIGNS YOU NEED NEW BRAKE PADS

1. Squeaking noise.
Many brake pads have wear indicators.
The Wear indicators are metal tabs near the top of typical brake pads. When the brake pad itself wears down, the indicator will scrape against the rotor making the squeeking noise.

2. Clicking noise.
In some cars, the brake pads fit snugly into a special holding device and on other vehicles keep them steady with clips, bolts, or pins.
If they become loosened somehow they begin to rattle.
The clicking sound rings out whenever the brake pedal is pushed or released.

3. Stopping takes longer.
Known as “brake fade.” This is caused by at some point intentionally applying the brakes over a vast distance without bringing the car to a full stop, like for example when driving down a long hill.
By making the brake pads touch with the rotors for a long, uninterrupted period, both of these will heat up.
In the process, their ability to generate friction against each other which is needed is reduced over a length of time. The result of this is that your car will not come to a complete stop as quickly as it used to do.

4. The nose of your car pulls to one side when you brake.
Unfortunately your vehicle’s brake pads will not always wear out at the exact same rate. Sometimes, the ones on one side may get thinner faster than the others on the other side.
If this occurs this will make the car pull slightly to the left or right once you hit the brakes.

5. The brake pedal vibrates when pressed.
Does the brake pedal violently shake whenever you step on it? If so your brake pads might be causing the problem. Brake pads are typically held together with a kind of binding resin. As each brake pad wears down,
this adhesive gets hot and gets smeared across the rotor. Under ideal circumstances, it will form a layer that’s evenly spread over the disc’s surface. But if a brake pad gets overheated, the resin may not be distributed uniformly and cause a vibration.

If you think you need your car’s brake’s checking bring your car to us at Clinton Garage in Kenilworth.