CARS.COM — If you’re lucky, the squealing or squeaking noise that your brakes make when you first drive your car in the morning, particularly after rain or snow, is just surface rust being scraped off ...

It's critical that you replace your disc brake pads and rotors regularly. But what about the calipers? Here's how to know if you should replace them or not.

Brakes almost never fail out of the blue—they usually warn you well in advance. The key is recognizing the signs instead of ...

Q: My ’05 Toyota Tacoma, with less than 20,000 miles, has brakes that continuously squeal upon application. The local Toyota garage claims they disassembled each brake and found no root cause for the ...

Q: The brakes on my Mazda CX-5 make a noise only when I shift to reverse. What can the problem be? What would be a low-cost way to resolve this? A: The very first thing you should do is to have the ...

Car owners continuously run into issues while using their vehicles. While some problems are tolerable, others border on irritating and not only for the driver. One such issue is squeaky brakes. How ...

Most would agree that brakes are the most important feature of your car—but do you know how to detect when there’s a problem with your brakes, or how to do a maintenance check on your brake system?

A car's braking system is its most important component. It is the ultimate safety measure a car is equipped with to prevent accidents and major crashes. Recognizing the early warning signs that ...

Just as your gas mileage will vary depending on where and how you drive, so it goes with the life of brake pads (or brake shoes), the friction material that gets pressed against a metal disc (rotor) ...

When the car is sluggish, the wheels are difficult to roll, the wheel rims are unusually hot or burning, the brake pedal ...

Your vehicle carries some pretty valuable cargo. Let’s talk about a major safety aspect of your car, the braking system. Being “out of sight, out of mind,” the braking systems on most people’s cars go ...