Eighty-five percent of motorists don’t know how to check their own brake discs and pads for safety. Most motorists wait until they are alerted by a brake warning light on the dashboard. However, many vehicles don’t have a brake warning light and those that do often fail to alert drivers until brakes are well in to the danger zone.

Random checks found drivers with worn brake pads, brake discs below minimum legal thickness and in some cases warped brake discs. Some brake problems are easier to notice than others, such as a vibration through the brake peddle which is often the result of warped brake discs. Other problems are not so easy to detect and drivers only find out about a problem when a vehicle fails to stop in time.

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