If your car has low brake fluid levels (see “Checking Brake Fluid”), it usually means that there’s a leak somewhere in your wheel cylinders or your brake lines, which are the lines that run underneath ...

As the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s Brake Safety Week approaches next month, experts offered insights and tips into one of the more common violations: brake hose chafing. Brake violations ...

Ever since picking up my 2011 BMW 128i back in March, I’ve had incremental performance upgrades on the brain. Planning out what’s next has been daunting at times because I’m not used to owning a car ...

The importance of a well-designed and fully functioning braking system has never been more apparent to me than during my last visit to the racetrack. I was driving my dad's '06 C6 Corvette in a local ...

I'll be the first to admit that making custom brake lines from scratch is not one of my favorite tasks when it comes to screwing a custom build together. I've never had good luck with any of the ...

Making brake lines is one of those tasks I always dread. I don't do it often enough to be very good at it, I don't have the right tools, and it never comes out nearly as nice as I expect it to. With ...

Thin tubes push high-pressure fluid to four corners of your vehicle. With this, a modern hydraulic braking system hauls your rig down to a firm stop. Or, so you hope. In our world, big tires and ...

More than 100,000 Toyota Tacomas are in need of a brake hose fix after an issue with clearance popped up, according to a recall notice filed with the National Highway Transportation Safety ...

Throughout the year, General Motors has repeatedly issued recalls for various makes and models of vehicles suffering from too many different manufacturing flaws to easily keep track of them all. The ...

As the nation suffers through a cold and wet winter, tons of salt and other corrosive material is being strewn on streets and highways, spelling potential maintenance problems down the road. Some GM ...

What chemistry books define as an iron oxide formed by the redox reaction between oxygen and iron in the presence of moisture is a real issue among cars in this day and age. If a car isn’t maintained ...

Bleeding your car's brakes sounds intimidating until you actually do it. If your brake pedal feels squishy, or you've just replaced brake pads or lines, bleeding the system can bring your stopping ...