My mechanic attached a paper onto my invoice from when I had the tires rotated, indicating that the rear brakes were at 50%. The rating system for the brakes' performance was in green, yellow or red; mine were in the yellow range. What should this mean to me? Is a brake inspection something I should ask to be done, or do I wait and why?
2007-03-04 11:00:44 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
Not necessarily. If they are at 50% thickness they are fine. brake performance should be fine as long as properly adjusted - and most brakes are auto adjust now. you should ask whoever made up the green, yellow, red system what they mean by it! Front brakes do most of the brake work - so they wear out faster. Rears usually last a lot longer.
2007-03-04 11:20:22 · answer #1 · answered by Thomas E 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're probably good for now. Most likely you have drum brakes on the rear anyway, and they stand up to a lot more wear. You're yellow, so it doesn't need done now. Plan on doing the front and rear together on the next rotation, that should take care of the whole shebang more economically and it'll be perfectly safe..
2007-03-04 19:10:07 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
your brake lining is only half wore out in the back, you have a long way to go before you need to change them.
2007-03-04 20:34:57 · answer #3 · answered by mister ss 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
first you should have had the back checked when they did the front, if anythign atleast have them inspected chances are they will tell you to replace them
2007-03-04 19:05:53 · answer #4 · answered by richard h 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋