Would you work on your car brakes?
I’m pretty sure I have an issue with the brakes on my 2016 Accord. It has about 30,000 km, mix of city but a fair bit of highway also (including round trip ON to AB). Issue from being hardly driven at times (have been keeping battery charged though). Sometimes there were days or weeks between use; last winter it was taken off the road for 4 months but was at least in family’s garage. After that it seemed okay, brakes maybe not as smooth as new, initially in particular. This winter hasn’t driven much either, including not at all for like 7 weeks.
After that, one wheel has been making a rubbing sound, comes and goes a bit and thought it was snow/ice initially (sounded like such and was during snow), but hasn’t gone away and now been worse (more so when braking, and avoiding driving it as result). The car handles okay, the brake feels maybe not quite as smooth as it should (but not any severe vibration), probably wouldn’t notice if it not the sound and looking for it. Not having to push the pedal extra far, pulling to a side or anything. The only thing is once when I was backing up it seemed to stick/jump.
Basically I think it’s corrosion deterioration from not enough use to keep worn smooth, if that makes sense? Obviously it’s hard to tell for sure without looking. I’m thinking I want to replace all the brakes, including all rotors and pads, and try to do a complete job of it. Probably not worth trying to replace just pads for example.
I’m contemplating about replacing the brakes myself. At the very least I think I’m going to take the wheel off to take a look. I’m not a mechanic, but in electrical. Grew up on farm doing stuff like oil and tire changes and basic maintenance/repair on machinery but not anything major like engine rebuilds. I currently still do oil changes and tire changeovers.
Would this be something to take on? Where are good places to get parts? I’m a couple hours from GTA, so other than a couple places like Canadian Tire and Napa, it would probably mean online order.
After that, one wheel has been making a rubbing sound, comes and goes a bit and thought it was snow/ice initially (sounded like such and was during snow), but hasn’t gone away and now been worse (more so when braking, and avoiding driving it as result). The car handles okay, the brake feels maybe not quite as smooth as it should (but not any severe vibration), probably wouldn’t notice if it not the sound and looking for it. Not having to push the pedal extra far, pulling to a side or anything. The only thing is once when I was backing up it seemed to stick/jump.
Basically I think it’s corrosion deterioration from not enough use to keep worn smooth, if that makes sense? Obviously it’s hard to tell for sure without looking. I’m thinking I want to replace all the brakes, including all rotors and pads, and try to do a complete job of it. Probably not worth trying to replace just pads for example.
I’m contemplating about replacing the brakes myself. At the very least I think I’m going to take the wheel off to take a look. I’m not a mechanic, but in electrical. Grew up on farm doing stuff like oil and tire changes and basic maintenance/repair on machinery but not anything major like engine rebuilds. I currently still do oil changes and tire changeovers.
Would this be something to take on? Where are good places to get parts? I’m a couple hours from GTA, so other than a couple places like Canadian Tire and Napa, it would probably mean online order.
