How to change the car brake pads

Tutorial which explains how to change easily the brake pads by yourself. The video is realized over the front brake pads, but is also valid for the rear brake pads. This tutorial is useful for all brands, models and engines which use disk brakes. This maintenance operation should be done by us, in fact the brake pads could be buyed in nearly every auto part shop, and doing us this replacement will save a lot of money in the workshop.

The necessary tools are not very special.

This maintenance operation should be done when the thickness of the brake pad is under 4 mm, in the cars with alloy wheels this check is very easy, in the rest of the car we must remove the tyre to check the thickness of the brake pads.