By Brian England
Hybrid and Electrical vehicles use regenerative braking methods in addition to normal brakes.
Normal brakes depend on friction to sluggish the automotive down, just like how the brakes on a bicycle work.
Regenerative braking methods, use the vitality produced by the engine to cost the battery and sluggish the automotive down. Most hybrid & electrical vehicles use the regenerative braking system for mild to reasonable braking, and solely utilizing the usual friction brakes as a backup.
Whereas this extends the battery life on your automotive, it means the conventional friction brakes should not getting used as a lot.
So, the usual brakes sit there uncovered to rain, snow and salt slowly rusting and turn out to be much less and fewer environment friendly. In addition they rust between the pad backing plate and the frictional materials inflicting separation which is harmful.
The normal option to examine brake pads is to measure the thickness in thirty seconds of an inch, however at 100k miles they’ll measure almost as thick as new pads! Cautious checking the brake elements at the least each 15000 miles is vital for protected and dependable driving.