Why are your brakes important?

Brakes are the most important safety feature in your car. If your brake warning light is on, then you need to pay attention and bring to Sydney Mechanical and Smash Repair to check for you.

What about the less-obvious warning signs? If you experience any of these signs, you should have your brakes checked by a specialist:

• Your car loses grip when braking
• Your car pulls to the left or right when braking
• Your brake pedal is low, hard, soft or spongy
• Your steering wheel shudders when you brake
• Your brakes screech or squeal
• Your car takes longer to stop than normal

Why choose Sydney Mechanical and Smash Repair for your brake repairs or service?

We carries a wide range of brake replacement parts to suit most popular makes and models. More importantly, the technical expertise of our brake repair specialists ensures you’ll leave with your brakes in top condition.

Why are your disc brake calipers important?

Brake calipers are essential to your car’s ability to stop and are arguably one of the most important automobile brake parts. Most cars today have disc brakes, at least for the front wheels, anyway. But a lot of cars and trucks are now using disc brakes in the rear, too. In a disc-braking system the car’s wheels are attached to metal discs, or rotors, that spin along with the wheels. The job of the caliper is to slow the car’s wheels by creating friction with the rotors.

When you apply pressure to your brake pedal,  the pressure forces brake fluid to engage a series of mechanisms that push the brake pad onto the disc rotor (which is attached to the wheel assembly) bringing your car to a stop. The brake pad is mounted to a brake caliper, which is the part that applies and releases the brake pads from the disc rotor.

The caliper comprises a housing, inside which is a piston that moves back and forth when you apply and releases the brakes. Rubber parts inside the caliper ensure that hydraulic fluid does not leak from it.

If your vehicle’s calipers have not been overhauled for some time, we may recommend this service when replacing brake pads in Sydney.

Although you do not always need to overhaul calipers in axle sets (pairs), doing so can result in more balanced braking and extended brake-pad life.

After thousands of braking applications, disc rotors wear, usually unevenly. For effective braking, new brake pads should fit flush against the disc rotor. That’s why your disc rotors should be machined by a Midas specialist.