The brakes decelerate or allow the vehicle in motion to stop, or prevent a parked vehicle from moving.

If braking system is faulty, it causes extreme dangers such as making it impossible to decelerate while driving/car is in motion.

Therefore, maintenance of the brake system is necessary.

These are the aspects of maintenance related to the braking system.

• Brake Pedal
• Parking Brake Lever
• Disc Brake
• Drum Brake
• Brake Fluid
• Brake Pipe & Hose

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1. When the amount of parking brake lever is too large
2. The parking brake has very little effect
3. When the amount of parking brake lever is too small.
4. There is the possibility of parking brake drag. (Parking brake remains in partially engaged state.)

Inspection: every 10,000km (6,000 miles) or 6 months

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When the disc brake pads wear, the disc rotor and the backing of pad touch directly, causing damage to the rotor.

• It can be judged just by looking
• When the remaining thickness of the disc pads falls below 1.0mm, replace them

It is installed on the backing of the disc pad. When a pad wear indicator touches the rotor, the indicator makes a noise to inform the driver that disc pad wear has reached the limit.

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When the brake lining wears, braking performance drops as the gap between the shoe and the drum becomes greater.

As the shoe touches the drum directly, it damages the drum

• Inspect/replace according to the distance driven or amount of time.
• It can also be judged by looking.
• When the remaining thickness of lining falls below 1.0mm, replace it

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Brake fluid is hydroscopic. This means brake fluid absorbs moisture from the air, and therefore its boiling point drops. When heat is generated during braking, the fluid boils creating air bubbles ("Vapor locking"). When the air bubbles are created, they absorb the hydraulic braking force applied to the wheel cylinders, creating a loss of braking altogether.

The moisture also creates rust to form in the wheel cylinders, which can cause the seals to leak brake fluid.

Replacement: every 40,000km (24,000 miles) or 2 year

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