WHY YOUR VDC, VSC & ABS WARNING LIGHTS SHOULD NOT BE IGNORED
Have you ever had your ABS or VSC, or warning lights come on; or are you even driving your car with the warning lights on; or do you know someone who does?
We’ve got a piece of advice for you. Visit a competent auto repair garage Immediately!
The Anti-lock braking system(ABS), Vehicle Dynamic Control(VDC) and the Vehicle Stability Control(VSC) are active electronic safety systems�equipped in your modern vehicle to keep you safe during emergency braking.
While the ABS functions to help you maintain traction(road grip), by preventing your wheels from locking during sudden emergency hard braking, causing your vehicle to skid and lose control, the VDC functions to prevent your car from skidding off the road during sharp bending.
The VSC similarly is an active safety system that functions to help you maintain vehicle stability and control of your vehicle in the event of over-correction during emergency maneuvers or on slippery surfaces.
All three systems are electronic, and work with data constantly received from your wheel speed and steering angle sensors, interpreting the data and send relevant action instructions to your brake system and engine.
These systems work constantly and are highly intelligent systems. Improper functioning of any of them could expose you to danger on the road.
It’s therefore extremely important that you heed the warning lights whenever they come on, and get a competent technician to diagnose and resolve any problems that may have ignited the warning lights.
Remember, as we always say, it’s great to move your fantastic car, but it’s vital to bring it to a safe stop whenever you wish to do so.
For more vehicle braking and safety tips, brake system replacement parts or referral to qualified auto repair garages, visit www.du-craftbrakes.com or call any of our hotlines: 08175748544(WhatsAp), 08165981806,09085690931
We’ll be glad to hear from you. Du-Craft Brakes…improving your braking experience!
Du-Craft Brakes is Nigeria’s No.1 aftermarket supplier of top quality, high performance replacement brake pads, brake accessories and brake system testing and repair tools.
Thanks for your interest in Du-Craft Premium Ceramic Brake Pads, a range of high performance brake pads that deliver smooth, stable and quiet braking force at varying driving temperatures.
Optimal braking performance is required to bring your moving vehicle to a safe stop. And one critical part of the braking system that’s relied upon to deliver that�performance on a vehicle is a set of high quality brake pads with good friction properties to effectively control Noise, Vibration and Harshness during braking.
Having purchasing a set of high performance brake pads, the next most important thing is to have your product properly installed.
The 10 proper brake pad installation tips below will therefore help you or your mechanic to achieve a proper installation that will potentially prolong and maximize the service life of your high performance Brake Pads.
Please take time to read and observe these tips during your brake pad installation.
1. Before installing your new brake pads, please look out for any form of uneven wear on your old pads. Uneven wear patterns indicate areas of problems in your calipers(check your caliper slide pins or pistons).
2. Lubricate the slide(guide) pins on your calipers with a silicone based brake lubricant on the slide pins.
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Please note that any petroleum based lubricant will eat up the rubber dust boots on the neck of the slide pin and leave your pins exposed to road debris that could cause your calipers to become jammed sooner than later.
3. Lubricate you caliper slide clips.
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These clips are at the top and bottom of the brake pad channel on the caliper brackets. They form a track for the brake pad’s back and forth movement. Any form of rust on them hinders the free movement of pads and causes squeals from increased pad vibration.
4. Inspect your brake discs for grooves, scars or warps.
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Ensuring that your disc surface is smooth on both sides is key to smooth, noiseless braking and brake pad longevity.
5. If your discs are grooved, warped or scarred, you may resurface or replace them in pairs. It’s important that you ensure that you measure the disc thickness with a micrometer before resurfacing. Discs have minimum surface thickness that must be maintained for safe and smooth braking. If you aren’t sure of your disc thickness, it’s safe to replace them.
6. Before pressing back your caliper pistons during pad installation, ensure that the outer walls of your pistons are cleaned to remove brake dust and road debris that could cause your caliper pistons to get stuck and cause your pads to wear unevenly and prematurely.
7. After reassembling the calipers and fitting them in position, test again to ensure that they are sliding horizontally along the caliper slide pins after lubricating the slide pins.
8. Ensure that the brake line bleeder valves on the calipers are not rusty and blocked.
9. Test your brake fluids with a good brake fluid tester strip or electronic tester tool to determine that the water, copper and corrosion levels of your fluid are within acceptable limits.
If your brake fluid has been in there for two years, please drain it completely and replace with a good Dot3, Dot4LV or Dot5.1 specification fluid(cars not equipped with ABS should use only Dot5 specification fluid).
10. Lastly, bleed your brake lines to rid them of any form of air.
NB: Remember that servicing your brake system checked and once in 6months or every 10,000kilometers helps to keeps your brake system functioning optimally, prolonging your brake pad and disc service life and ultimately keeping you safer on the road.
It’s great to move your vehicle, but far greater and vital to stop it safely, with lower disc abrasion! Visit�www.du-craftbrakes.com�to learn more!
I bet we all can agree that bumper to bumper driving is so common on Nigerian roads. And this has led to a lot of avoidable multiple crashes some of which have been fatal.
Keeping a safe braking distance could save you from a multiple crash!
Often times cars drive on highways at very close distances from one another, some as close as 20meters or less apart.
It may interest you to know that according to Australia’s leading driving training organisation Murcotts Driving Excellence, it takes averagely 44minutes to bring a vehicle traveling at 65kilometers an hour to a stop.
So to brake safely in the event of an emergency, when driving at 65,kilometers an hour, you need about 50meters between you and the vehicle ahead of you.
The next time you feel the urge to drive bumper to bumper on the Third Mainland Bridge, remember this warning from the Murcotts driving Excellence.
Please watch this two-minute video that best explains this warning. Copy this link and paste in your browser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG2WCDvX-M8
Have a safe drive today!!!
NB: To order premium-grade ceramic brake pads manufactured to high quality standards, offering optimal braking performance for up to 30,000kilometers and approved by the SON, visit www.du-craftbrakes.com/buyhere. Nationwide express delivery available!
Have you ever had your ABS or VSC, or warning lights come on; or are you even driving your car with the warning lights on; or do you know someone who does?
We’ve got a piece of advice for you. Visit a competent auto repair garage Immediately!
The Anti-lock braking system(ABS), Vehicle Dynamic Control(VDC) and the Vehicle Stability Control(VSC) are active electronic safety systems equipped in your modern vehicle to keep you safe during emergency braking.
While the ABS functions to help you maintain traction(road grip), by preventing your wheels from locking during sudden emergency hard braking, causing your vehicle to skid and lose control, the VDC functions to prevent your car from skidding off the road during sharp bending.
The VSC similarly is an active safety system that functions to help you maintain vehicle stability and control of your vehicle in the event of over-correction during emergency maneuvers or on slippery surfaces.
All three systems are electronic, and work with data constantly received from your wheel speed and steering angle sensors, interpreting the data and send relevant action instructions to your brake system and engine.
These systems work constantly and are highly intelligent systems. Improper functioning of any of them could expose you to danger on the road.
It’s therefore extremely important that you heed the warning lights whenever they come on, and get a competent technician to diagnose and resolve any problems that may have ignited the warning lights.
Remember, as we always say, it’s great to move your fantastic car, but it’s vital to bring it to a safe stop whenever you wish to do so.
For more vehicle braking and safety tips, brake system replacement parts or referral to qualified auto repair garages, visit www.du-craftbrakes.com or call any of our hotlines: 08175748544(WhatsAp), 08165981806,09085690931
We’ll be glad to hear from you. Du-Craft Brakes…improving your braking experience!
Du-Craft Brakes is Nigeria’s No.1 aftermarket supplier of top quality, high performance replacement brake pads, brake accessories and brake system testing and repair tools.
Have you ever had your ABS or VSC warning lights come on; or are you even driving your car with the warning lights on; or do you know someone who is driving his or her car with the warning lights on?
We’ve got a piece of advice for you. Visit a competent auto repair garage IMMEDIATELY!
The Anti-lock braking system(ABS), Vehicle Dynamic Control(VDC) and the Vehicle Stability Control(VSC) are active electronic safety systems equipped in your modern vehicle to keep you safe during emergency braking.
While the ABS functions to help you maintain traction(road grip), by preventing your wheels from locking during sudden emergency hard braking, causing your vehicle to skid and lose control, the VDC functions to prevent your car from skidding off the road during sharp bending.
The VSC similarly is an active safety system that functions to help you maintain vehicle stability and control of your vehicle in the event of over-correction during emergency maneuvers or on slippery surfaces.
All three systems are electronic, and work with data constantly received from your wheel speed and steering angle sensors, interpreting the data and sending relevant action instructions to your brake system and engine.
These intelligent safety systems work constantly and are critical to your overall driving safety. Improper functioning of any of them could expose you to danger on the road.
It’s therefore extremely important that you heed the warning lights whenever they come on, and get a competent technician to diagnose and resolve any problems that may have ignited the warning lights.
Remember, as we always say, it’s great to move your fantastic car, but it’s vital to bring it to a safe stop whenever you need to do so.
For more vehicle braking and safety tips, brake system replacement parts or referral to qualified auto repair garages, visit www.du-craftbrakes.com or call any of our hotlines: 08175748544(WhatsAp), 08165981806,09085690931
We’ll be glad to hear from you. Du-Craft Brakes…improving your braking experience!
Du-Craft Brakes is Nigeria’s No.1 aftermarket supplier of top quality, high performance replacement brake pads, brake accessories and brake system testing and repair tools.
In my previous post on the need for brake fluid replacement service every 50,000kilometers of two years, i explained that brake fluids are hygrospcopic, tending to absorb moisture from the atmosphere.
In this post i’ll briefly touch on the danger of moisture and corrosion in your brake fluid.
Brake fluids essentially transmit pedal pressure to braking force.
When a driver pushes on the brake pedal, the lowly compressible brake fluid transfers the pedal pressure to a compression on the caliper pistons on all four wheels, simultaneously creating a frictional force of the brake pads on the rotors, bringing the vehicle to a stop.
To perform this vital function, brake fluids must have low compressibility and high boiling point to avoid vaporization.
Most new brake fluids depending on their grade(either DOT3, DOT4 or DOT5.1) have dry boiling points(boiling point when fluid is new and without moisture) between 205 to 260 degrees Celsius(unlike water that has boiling point at 100 degrees Celsius).
However after months of exposure to moisture in the atmosphere during usage in the vehicle, the wet boiling point of brake fluids(when the fluid is already containing significant measure of water) drops to between 140 degrees to 155 degrees Celsius.
The lower the boiling point of your brake fluid, the higher your brake fluid’s propensity to boil, vaporize and become highly compressible, thereby becoming unable to transfer pedal pressure to braking force.
A boiling and highly compressible brake fluid is equal to loss of pedal pressure transmission to braking forcing. In order words, a boiling brake fluid is equal to BRAKE FAILURE!!!
In addition to lower boiling point, moisture in your brake fluid causes and increases corrosion in your brake lines and threatens the proper functioning of your ABS and caliper pistons.
In summary, moisture in your brake fluid leads to brake failure and ABS damage!
Call us today to take advantage of our ongoing FREE BRAKE FLUID TESTING!
Call our hotlines for your appointment: 08175748544(WhatsApp), 08165981806, 09085690931. It’s FREE and only takes minutes to complete!
Visit www.du-craftbrakes.com to learn more about us.
Du-Craft Brakes…improving your braking experience!
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Thanks for your interest in Du-Craft Premium Ceramic Brake Pads, a range of high performance brake pads that deliver smooth, stable and quiet braking force at varying driving temperatures.
Optimal braking performance is required to bring your moving vehicle to a safe stop. And one critical part of the braking system that’s relied upon to deliver that performance on a vehicle is a set of high quality brake pads with good friction properties to effectively control Noise, Vibration and Harshness during braking.
Having purchasing a set of high performance brake pads, the next most important thing is to have your product properly installed.
The 10 proper brake pad installation tips below will therefore help you or your mechanic to achieve a proper installation that will potentially prolong and maximize the service life of your high performance Brake Pads.
Please take time to read and observe these tips during your brake pad installation.
1. Before installing your new brake pads, please look out for any form of uneven wear on your old pads. Uneven wear patterns indicate areas of problems in your calipers(check your caliper slide pins or pistons).
2. Lubricate the slide(guide) pins on your calipers with a silicone based brake lubricant on the slide pins.
Please note that any petroleum based lubricant will eat up the rubber dust boots on the neck of the slide pin and leave your pins exposed to road debris that could cause your calipers to become jammed sooner than later.
3. Lubricate you caliper slide clips.
These clips are at the top and bottom of the brake pad channel on the caliper brackets. They form a track for the brake pad’s back and forth movement. Any form of rust on them hinders the free movement of pads and causes squeals from increased pad vibration.
4. Inspect your brake discs for grooves, scars or warps.
Ensuring that your disc surface is smooth on both sides is key to smooth, noiseless braking and brake pad longevity.
5. If your discs are grooved, warped or scarred, you may resurface or replace them in pairs. It’s important that you ensure that you measure the disc thickness with a micrometer before resurfacing. Discs have minimum surface thickness that must be maintained for safe and smooth braking. If you aren’t sure of your disc thickness, it’s safe to replace them.
6. Before pressing back your caliper pistons during pad installation, ensure that the outer walls of your pistons are cleaned to remove brake dust and road debris that could cause your caliper pistons to get stuck and cause your pads to wear unevenly and prematurely.
7. After reassembling the calipers and fitting them in position, test again to ensure that they are sliding horizontally along the caliper slide pins after lubricating the slide pins.
8. Ensure that the brake line bleeder valves on the calipers are not rusty and blocked.
9. Test your brake fluids with a good brake fluid tester strip or electronic tester tool to determine that the water, copper and corrosion levels of your fluid are within acceptable limits.
If your brake fluid has been in there for two years, please drain it completely and replace with a good Dot3, Dot4LV or Dot5.1 specification fluid(cars not equipped with ABS should use only Dot5 specification fluid).
10. Lastly, bleed your brake lines to rid them of any form of air.
NB: Remember that servicing your brake system checked and once in 6months or every 10,000kilometers helps to keeps your brake system functioning optimally, prolonging your brake pad and disc service life and ultimately keeping you safer on the road.
It’s great to move your vehicle, but far greater and vital to stop it safely, with lower disc abrasion! Visit www.du-craftbrakes.com to learn more!
If you are reading this and you own a vehicle, or know someone who does, please learn this today and share the vital safety information!
The brake fluid, a hygroscopic lubricant containing anti-corrosion additives meant to keep your brake lines and parts corrosion free, and transfer pedal pressure to braking(stopping) force, is the most critical lubricant in your vehicle! It is the single most important lubricant in your car for your family’s safety!
And because brake fluids are highly hygroscopic(tending to absorb moisture from the atmosphere), they degrade over time due to increasing copper contents and corrosion levels; becoming increasingly compressible and potentially leading to brake pedal flattening(brake failure).
When your engine oil degrades and goes bad, your engine wears out and you get a new engine or overhaul the bad one; when your transmission fluid degrades, your transmission system wears and you get a replacement; but when your brake fluid degrades and goes bad(containing high water, copper and corrosion levels), it could be a matter of life and death!
Indeed, it’s great to move that fantastic car of yours; but stopping it safely is far greater and vital to you and your family’s safety!
Brake system parts and maintenance experts at Phoenix Systems in the United States, technical members of the Society of Automotive Engineers(SAE International) as well as automotive professionals at The Automotive Maintenance and Repair Association in the United States all agree that copper corrosion and high compressibility are the No.1 causes of brake part failure in passenger cars.
They recommended therefore that every vehicle undergoes a complete brake fluid replacement at 50,000kilometers or 2yrs(which ever comes first).
So please note and share this!
NEVER, i repeat, NEVER drive your passenger vehicle beyond 50,000kms or 2yrs on the same brake fluid! Have your mechanic drain the old water, copper and corrosion contaminated fluid completely, and replace with Dot3, Dot4, Dot4LV(Low Viscosity) or Dot5.1 specification fluid for cars with ABS and Dot5 for cars without ABS.
If you are not clear about your manufacturers’ recommended specification please consult your vehicle manual.
For more life saving tips on brake system preventive maintenance and high quality ceramic brake pads or to test your brake fluid corrosion and copper levels FOR FREE, please call our hotlines: 08175748544(WhatsApp), 08165981806, 09085690931 or visit www.du-craftbrakes.com to learn more.
Du-Craft Brakes…improving your braking experience!!!
I bet we all can agree that bumper to bumper driving is so common on Nigerian roads. And this has led to a lot of avoidable multiple crashes some of which have been fatal.
Keeping a safe braking distance could save you from a multiple crash!
Often times cars drive on highways at very close distances from one another, some as close as 20meters or less apart.
It may interest you to know that according to Australia’s leading driving training organisation Murcotts Driving Excellence, it takes averagely 44minutes to bring a vehicle traveling at 65kilometers an hour to a stop.
So to brake safely in the event of an emergency, when driving at 65,kilometers an hour, you need about 50meters between you and the vehicle ahead of you.
The next time you feel the urge to drive bumper to bumper on the Third Mainland Bridge, remember this warning from the Murcotts driving Excellence.
Please watch this two-minute video that best explains this warning. Copy this link and paste in your browser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG2WCDvX-M8
Have a safe drive today!!!
NB: To order premium-grade ceramic brake pads manufactured to high quality standards, offering optimal braking performance for up to 30,000kilometers and approved by the SON, visit www.du-craftbrakes.com/buyhere. Nationwide express delivery available!
Did you know that regularly lubricating your brake caliper slide pin maximizes your brake pad service life?
As you drive through mud and flood from time to time, your caliper slide pin could easily become rusty without regular lubrication.
Rustiness causes It to get stuck, not allowing it move back and forth as it should normally do to allow the caliper frame slide horizontally in order to create the double sided frictional force needed to slow down or stop your spinning wheel.
The result of this is your brake pad prematurely wearing on one side, causing you to repeatedly replace brake pads sooner than necessary.
So when last was your caliper slide pin lubricated? Did your last brake pad wear one sided? Now you need to think well about it. Certainly, spending more than necessary on frequent brake pad replacement is something you want to avoid at this period.
To get premium ceramic brake pads with up to 30,000kilometer service life, click on the menu tab on at the top right corner of this page to navigate to our online store. Select your product, add to cart and check out. Your order will be processed and delivered to you.