Brake Systems 2.0: How to Know You're Due for Service ( Before it Gets Expensive)

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Our topic today, if you missed yesterday's

topic, which was a beginning of a series that I just started that's costing a majority of you

thousands and thousands of dollars in needless brake repairs. And my hope is at the end of

the series that you come away with an aha moment. So today is brake systems 2.0,

how to know what you're due for service. So the first part of the series was brake systems 101.

So now we're in brake systems 2.0, where I'm jumping in and unpacking, pulling over,

drilling down vertically and horizontally into the whole idea of what does it look like to properly

maintain the brakes on your automobiles to waiting till everything's gone to hell in a hand basket.

And now there's nothing salvageable, and you're into thousands of dollars to bring the system

back up. So stick around. That's what we're going to cover this morning. On the Thursday morning,

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interest month and you know what it is freaking amazing I'll share that in another

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and help yourself become super healthy in a brand new year 2026 well we're going to help you get

healthy super healthy with your breaks on your car and I'm stalling out on this one this particular

series because I really my hope is that at the end of the series the takeaway is you have

an amazing almost blacking out aha moment going I didn't know that yeah I didn't know

we call it the IDK moment I didn't know or I don't know or isn't that interesting

well this morning's episode is episode number 55 so we have a lot of information for you to tap

into we have 137 officially YouTube videos and the everything that we talk about can be found on

our website at carconnectedbusinessnetwork.com that's where all the links all the platforms

everything to connect and learn learn more visually our YouTube channel teaches every

video teaches you five things what it is where it is how it works how it breaks and if you knew

more basic fundamentals of the automobile and understanding of those components how you could

have saved thousands more dollars every year in needless automotive repairs so I dumb it all down

we're not building hot rods monster trucks or custom cruisers just doing basic fundamental

repairs whether it's a 15 year old vehicle or a 25 year old vehicle or a five year old vehicle

all the fundamentals are exactly the same they're just they just are happening by different means

so from digital uh from analog to digital to electronic from cables to touch screens

to just saying hey Siri uh oh you're gonna ask me now turn on the heater controls to 72 degrees

please yeah and would you set my bathtub up for me at six o'clock tonight and make sure you use the

brass marine thermometer and set my bathtub at 68 degrees please thank you very much have yourself

a wonderful day so technology has changed but the basics never changed tires are round and black

and they take air heater controls give you heat air conditioning defrost so feet center dash

defrost mirrors they're there you can adjust them with a cable for your fingers or now

it's all done electronically the seats you either reach down pull the lever and find yourself in

the back seat while you're driving upside down and the car goes off the rhubarb patch that has not

changed but what has changed like my pops now has a lexus excuse me pardon me got any gray poop on

um the seat now he doesn't like to let you drive the his car because the seat knows him that's what

he said my seat knows who I am yeah that we don't have in the past although I did have a 1982

Cadillac Fleetwood drone biggest piece of crap I ever had in my entire life yeah I took it to the

I took it to the um Scarborough not Scarborough Woodstock auction yeah it was rust free

it was Floridian it was a beautiful limo car but you know what I turned it into a car at the end

I fixed all the stuff that was Cadillac that was junk I turned it into an Oldsmobile but that was

1982 and it had seat memory as well yeah electronic seats and uh electronic heater controls as well

where you just press the you know touch touchscreen not like today's technology but I say all that to

say cars change but they don't they change but they don't the fundamental basics are still the same

and brakes they all have brakes now we have fancy brakes yeah like you know I wear my best

clothes and gloves and whatnot when I'm fixing the fancy brakes yeah and I use cotton wipes

yeah Egyptian cotton so I'm just killing kidding you but just the same technology

is still producing the same whatever heat heater controls wipers brakes tires suspension steering

those things are all the same let's talk about I want to jump into the rear brakes because what

we've got now is we've got vehicles uh I have a 91 uh 1971 feet spider

tucked away and that's going to come into the shop soon it needs some engine work

and uh wrap that one up I've tucked that one away for a very long time and it needs some engine work

so it's time to share that with you but it has four-wheel disc brakes 1971 way ahead of its time

way ahead of its time so we have vehicles today with four-wheel disc brakes pretty much

everything out there including a lot of highway trucks now are running huge disc brakes instead

of cube brakes so things are changing but there's still brakes but the way the brakes apply is

what has changed and that goes for everything on the automobile what it was the word I was trying to

say the how the way and the how has changed but the basics of those operations what it does

has not changed that's what I was trying to say previously but I had a brain fart so stay with

me that happens at all age groups from what I'm being told so we got rear brakes now that have

incorporated what we call line lock system so when you park the vehicle and you you put it

into park you'll hear this in the rear brakes lock up my pops vehicle has that my friend jen down

the road her in 2017 16 rather Honda cord had that and she sold it last year uh no summer before

and I had to get into that system so the vehicle would certify and do brakes all the way around

and and it was uh quite a project because brake work had not been done things were seized I was

trying to avoid her getting into thousands of dollars of repairs and thank goodness I was

able to get the calipers apart and get that that that electronic parking brake assembly working

on both calipers otherwise big buca bucks for those calipers so I say all that to say

technology has changed folks on brakes and running them to the max until there's nothing left

is not a good program and a good plan and I know I might have been a bit harsh in episode one but

here's where the rubber really meets the road because y'all are driving like crazy maniacs out

there you're doing you know who you are you're doing 20 to 30k over the posted speed limit not the

recommended speed limit or suggested speed limit you're driving the living crap out of your vehicles

and wondering why they're always costing you a ton of money well you're driving them like you stole

them I see people out there and I go you gotta be nuts to be driving like that vehicle like that

every single day and then wondering why when you get it in when the car forces you into the shop

it has a list of stuff that's needed as long as your left leg and then you look at the tech

hello I've been licensed since 1980 1988 I still have scars emotional damage from being blamed

for your ride having all these problems why does it oh I gotta spend all this money on it

it's because your mindset is in the wrong place they don't last if you drive the living crap out

of them yeah we're gonna cover that in a separate episode because that is a conversation on its own

you know it's like in the day watching one of my buddies at school sit there and light up the car

because somebody is standing on the sidewalk in front of school goes oh light it up buddy light it

up put a giver to it and then there's a cop sitting right down the street and his 1975

Transam got hauled away so did he in a police car and that was the name of that tune and I

would look at that and go I can't afford to do a smoky burnout like that like I'm I'm going to

high school all day and I'm cleaning a chicken processing plant all night to pay my way I lived

on my own I left home at 16 I lived on my own ever since and my buddy John falls into the

do a smoky burnout guy show what shows what you got yeah and then yeah things got really

hairy when he got home yeah he lived right around the corner from where I my parents lived yeah so

anyways that kind of stuff costs money and here's the whole thing you know people buy four-wheel drives

and you know you know who you are you know your brand new Jeep and whatnot you go out and mud it

and the whole thing and and I look at how much money you spent to get that and I go oh no no if I

if I'm going to go do that I'm going to I'm going to build a cheap vehicle call it a bush hog

and you know something older where parts are available and they're not that expensive but

if you play hard you pay hard and that's where I'm going with this you guys were out there

and you're running 30 40k an hour over the suggested speed limit and you know when you

get caught by the popo and you get a juicy ticket just look in your rear rearview mirror just bring

it down so you can see yourself and go I gotta be an idiot I'm working how many hours a week

and I just gave away $360 and got a couple of points on top of that my insurance is just

going to love me at the next policy renewal so there's another cha-ching and what I'm hoping

to unpack for you in 26 2026 is all the areas in all the decades that I've been fixing automobiles

and working with people I loved my clients on the Hamilton Mount the pieces I still miss them

today they were like extended family and you know they never left the shop without having

another appointment for their car and you know what they had the best maintained cars on the

Hamilton Mount period none of my clients vehicles came in on a flatbed and something

unless something unforeseen catastrophic happen you know something we just could not predict

that's what we strive for we had a less than 0.5 percent

turnbacks you know where something went wrong we didn't have to do redo's because we went the

miles to bring our customers up to date help them to understand their automobile we even did service

clinics for the ladies and had a great night with you know food and delicacies and treats

and working on cars and getting to understand them you're wasting money on your vehicle if you

play hard you pay hard it is that simple coming right down to slow it down folks you know if you

got to drive that speed on the road you're burning up brakes a lot faster than I do I just mentioned

an episode one that I just did the brakes on the back of the vehicle I bought when I was 22 years

old at 17.93 percent and I still have it 1984 short box uh let me hit addition four by four

and I just did the rear brakes on it last winter for the very first time at 169,000

original kilometer how does that happen you guys out there burning up brakes in a year

and right down to the nub and if you want to check some of the uh brakes I called I actually

nicknamed the whole series all summer the brake nationals as I was I was getting in deep on brakes

on a vehicle every single month and it was a gut job that means there was nothing

saveable in fact the one the last vehicle I did is sitting out in front of the workshop here

it's waiting to go for safety because I can't do that because I'm not a licensed repair shop

and I still have my licenses right up to date but I can't write myself a safety check and I

never did even when I had the shop I sent vehicles out that I bought for myself to resale

or to offer to my clients the safety was not done by me I sent it out to my friend Sam at

his shop down the street to do the safety that way I was out of the picture if Sam found something

that he wasn't happy with or I had missed then he would tell me and if I didn't have time to say

just go ahead and do that and then get it done because the car is going to be leaving it's going

to another caregiver so it's sitting out there that was the last of the brake nationals for 2025

nothing saveable especially on the rear brakes and that's the area I'm targeting right now

if hubby or yourself do not use the parking brake I'm giving you a score of zero out of

10 on that because who's made the decision in the fam to say oh you know it's an automatic we don't

need to use the emergency brake who called that like who is saying that and what have you got to

back that up to say that it's okay to say we don't need to use the park brake set brake emergency

brake electronic brake we don't need to use that because the car is an automatic give me a stink

and brake that is dumber than a willow branch no no no no times no divided by no plus no equals

no that is not true that is an absolute lie from the pit of hell and smells like smoke period

it's a myth that is not true in today's world the rear brakes are so high tech

you won't even imagine until you go it's going to cost how much well you weren't using the

brake and now it has to work for everything to work right well I don't even use it listen again

put your right finger in your your index finger in your earhole and listen this time everything is

gone and destroyed and rotted out and not repairable needs all to be replaced for the rear brakes to

work as they need to work as it left the factory I can't eliminate anything for you

it won't the system will not work so would you like only two brakes or four so I'm between a

rock and a hard place having to tell you because somebody in the fam said well it's an automatic

we don't need to use the rear brake to change thousands of dollars this past summer if those

jobs that we were allowed to video and we worked together with some single moms

widowed ladies to get them brakes back up and shot a number of videos breaking it all down

if the work had to be done at a shop it would have cost thousands just on the rear brakes alone

hadn't even touched the front one and we know they're all right down to the to the metal metal on

metal there's nothing left so it's going to be calipers it's going to be pads it's going to be

rotors and anything else that's not reusable yeah you did you get your money out of it that's the

point I'm going to close with today did you get your money's worth out of it no you didn't you

cost yourself more money more money than I will spend because I don't have to

you know I I do my own brakes every six months so when I go to change over tires uh April 15th

all wheels are off I pull all the I got it right apart I pull it all down inspect everything and

then I put it back together then I put my summer wheels on in the fall I do exactly the same thing

all four wheels are off it's in the shop or I do it outside if I don't have room and I pull

everything down calipers off brake pads out everything I pull it all apart inspect everything

and then build it back and then put the winter tires on that's my system for you because of how

you're driving you need a full brake inspection no less than every three months for a year

to stay ahead of the curve what's the curve your driving habits your stop and go driving

you're heavy on the foot brake you race the next people to the next traffic light and then

you're standing on it and how do I know that because I see the back end of your car rise

in the nose of the car going down it's called inertia if you took physics class it's inertia

and that also tells me that the rear brakes are way out of adjustment because the rear brakes

should pull the car back so it tight kinds of squats like a dog taking the weight off the front

brakes so you're not burning out the front brakes prematurely because that's what's happening out

there your rear brakes aren't working properly because somebody's convinced you you don't use the

parking brake set brake electronic brake yeah and you don't do any services none zero you take it to

the limit I think there's a song about that isn't there it is so true I'm taking it to limit it this

this one sentence that I've heard for so many years oh I'm going to get my money's worth out of that

yep you sure did now it's going to cost you it could it could have cost you a whole lot less

but you got your money's worth you took it right to the limit now there's nothing left to save

that's what I'm trying to tell you here in brake systems 2.0 we got to get you to change your

driving habits and that goes for all age groups 20 somethings all the way up doesn't matter I even

see it in my own pops and I actually said pops you got to slow down you got to slow down because

you're standing on it I said you're burning your brakes out like crazy and then you'll say

well I had to do brakes on my car again for a second time that's two brake jobs in a year

I go slow down what's the hurry what's the hurry if you got to go to bed earlier to get up earlier

so that you can change your drive time and your driving habits do you how much money you're going

to save yeah we're you got to sign up for the 30 day fuel savings challenge another area where

you know what a lot of you are going to get like a two if you follow it and you follow what I'm

going to tell you to do for 30 days and then you're going to make some change stuff and then

do another test for 30 days you're going to like me and I'll be on your top drawer your Christmas

gift giving list because you're going to give some of you're going to get a raise of up to

two thousand dollars a year your boss going to tap you on the shoulder in the first quarter

q1 and say hey because I like you uh I'm going to give you a two thousand dollar increase in your

pay this year yippee no you can give yourself that just by the 30 day fuel savings challenge

and changing your driving habits and not burning out a set of brakes in 12 months where there's

nothing left I'm surprised even some people out there can make it 12 months the way I see them

drive because I do run into you know I'm in a small town and I get to know vehicles that I I see that

are common to the town so I know they must live in town and the same thing hot riding from one

traffic light to the next one the vehicles practically standing on its nose doing a periwet

excluding the two two and you're doing that all day every day day in day out and you're getting

up the morning you're trading time for money time for money time for money time for money

day in day out and you're blowing money right out the door on repairing your automobile and one of

the number one areas is brake service 2.0 you got to stop that habit not using the rear brakes

the rear disc brakes require that the emergency brake park brake set brake whatever terminology

your your vehicle uses I just call it the emergency brake yeah it has to work it's important that it

works to keep the rear brakes adjusted and free and moving and not seizing up and when they don't

it's a gut job to fix it when you when it come finally comes in where they're not working the

rear brakes aren't working at all anymore it's a gut job and it's expensive yeah there's no

four for one brake pads emergency brake cables etc programs out there the parts

are getting more and more expensive and we're having to hunt parts down a lot because you know

since the the forward campaign took out a lot of businesses and a lot of production and employees

getting auto parts has been like pulling teeth sometimes it can almost be an all-day job to

try and find the parts to get the car back out on the road in a decent amount of time so if your

tech is taking a bit of time to get stuff done cut them some slack because it's a hunt not for red

and resource the parts that they're just not readily available all the time anymore we gotta

we really have to hunt down the parts and source them and get them maybe some coming from here

some from there some over there it's crazy but it's true so today's brake systems 2.0 is your rear

brakes matter yes they do 100% because the rear brakes need to work to pull the vehicle back

to kind of squat like a dog to take the pressure off the front brakes front brakes do about between

60 and 70% of the stopping already without the rear brakes working when the rear brakes aren't working

properly because your emergency brake is not being used every single day if you go out to the front

of the car connection workshop right now and look in any window of any automobile sitting there you

will see that the park brake is set if you followed me to a local supermarket to go i'm going there

just to grab a few goods and scoot back to the office you will see when you look through the

window my park brake is on now here's where you should say uh why is that why do you always put

the park brake on because i don't want the extra expenses of having to gut everything in the rear

wheels so that i'm not overheating the front brakes and warping the rotors and burning the pads out

all the time because that's exactly what happens so fellows or felettes whoever you are that has

that mindset it's an automatic i don't need to use the parking brake yeah you yes you do 100%

not when you feel like it every time you park the car the only time i never i will not or i

shouldn't say never will not set my park brake is in the winter months if i've been driving through

slushy roads all day uh it can freeze up if i put it on that which means i go to take it off it

doesn't release so i'll just leave it off uh for the hopefully the next day is a sunny day and things

will fly out underneath and then it's safe to do so that's the only time i will not use the parking

brake if i go to the store i'm in the store for five minutes parking brake goes on if i'm going

to another store or another location or visiting a client potential client when i park there my

parking brake goes on again you should be saying why is that it all comes down to i know what it costs

to change all those components i know the amount of labor it takes to do that and i want to avoid

that as much as possible and limit the amount of replacement components i need to have when the

rear brakes are are ready at the next inspection something needs to be replaced i won't i don't

want to be getting into all that labor and all the parts to boot because you don't want even

though i can do the labor parts you still got to buy them and there's no deals out there anymore

no deals whatsoever parts are at a premium now even for for me yours truly motor mouth

they're at a premium that's why if you watch the video on the fire chicken 1984 fire chicken that

we're doing the rear brakes on right now i'm rebuilding the the four-wheel the rear disc brake

calipers because my cost on them's 363 dollars each that's not what tax so times two plus tax

that's bucke bucks i found the kits on light line through a company that i've known for years

dormant the rebuild kits $29 i bought two plus an extra in case i mess something up but still

that's a far cry that's like less than a hundred dollars and my labor and we were taught how to

do that at mo hoc college in the mvm department that was part of our our shop time rebuild the

caliper so i'm going to pull over and park and leave that there and there's going to be another

episode where we really drill down on all four wheels and how we can better combat the thousands

of dollars and the mindset that i'm going to drive it until i get my money's worth out of it

that's breaking the bank and if you follow my lead on how to take care of the brake system alone

that's going to save you a minimum of another thousand dollars a year so if you do the fuel

savings challenge and and save yourself up to two grand in fuel savings and then i save you

another thousand bucks minimum on for your brake service and replacement you're at already three

grand you're going to get a three thousand dollar raise this year probably not most of you i know i'm

not and that's okay no i think if if your boss came in said hey will you work next week for free

what kind of look would you give to your boss did you just say for free are you out of your mind

yeah well that's what i'm saying to you is your driving habits are costing y'all a ton of money

and you got to be out of your mind for doing it because you're trading time for money every single

day running the highways working hard you know who you are single moms moms single dads families

you're working hard for your money trading time for money away from your family and everything

and you know what your automobile can be a money making genius is when it's paid for

and i don't care how old it is doesn't matter to me i don't need i don't need to be buying a vehicle

to impress people i don't even know and i don't even like i am so far out of that league let me tell

you but i drive decent vehicles and people often will say what year is that when i go oh seven that's

an oh seven really that's what i want them to say because i don't just talk to talk i walk

the walk and you are welcome to check me on that fact check me on that anytime you like

anytime you like not one bolt left undone not one wire not put back in place nothing

i work with precision and do the job right the first time and do it well every single time

and i do a very good brake job i might add because i'm going to take that one i have never had a

brake job in all my four decades of being a licensed mechanic come back on me not one time

i don't do fudge factor 10 brake jobs period we do it right and we do it well and then i'll tell

you how you're going to take care of the next set of brakes that i just installed so that's what

i'm sharing with you i'm sharing you with you facts that will save you and put money back

in your wallet not take it but you got to do your part that's right you got to do your part

so if you're saving money on your repairs you know what that means two things you have the

money to service that vehicle and keep it going and work hard to get to the 600 000 kilometer club

yeah i'm almost at 400 on the old seven fj so i'm going to celebrate the 400 000 kilometer club

but i'm pushing for 600 k and i'll get there i know for certain i will get there i've done it before

i put at least one car i owned long enough to put a half a million miles on it and when i sold it

the next caregiver was very happy to get that vehicle it was well maintained well loved and

cared for and i think they made it to 800 000 miles yeah it's 1972 toyota selica yeah the custom

i put it together custom i still have a picture of it i really like that car turned into a minister

trans a miniature trans amp with a hood scoop and everything it was really so cool anyhow

i digress but if i can do it you can do it and my hope is your takeaway from our podcast is that

you're taking notes you're listening you're relistening you're sharing us with your family

or friends your community of peeps because all of you can save a ton of money and give yourself a

decent raise and have money left over to really take care of that car regardless of how old it is

and how much mileage that is just the word salad spin by the sales guys not to disrespect them but

you know what they they need to feed their families too so and i totally understand they got to move

sheet metal and rubber to do that sell another vehicle but you know what in this day and age

in the economic climate we're in the best vehicle if you were to talk to Tony Miele or Larry Detro

our certified financial planning professionals are going to tell you the best vehicle in your

driveway right now is the one that's paid for every time you turn the key if you service that

vehicle and take it take care of it and love on it you can keep it as long as you want and when

you start that vehicle up it's making you money yes it is it's making you money so what's it worth

i don't care if it's worth than like the 2008 sand rogues sitting out front is worth $993 on a trade

in today that's today's number what's it worth thing runs on farts and a jar if you don't drive

the snake out of it and it's great on fuel economy rides nice yeah it's got some pitfalls it's got a

list of pattern failure stuff that i'm already aware of but i could take that to 600,000 k

i know i could following my own standard operating procedures so until next time

stick around for part three that'll be break systems advanced how to know

your due for service that's going to be part three break systems advanced that's where we bring it all

together and i would highly recommend you visit our website at carconnectionbusinessnetwork.com

that's where all things are available to you there in one place everything we talk about

you'll find there you'll find all our links so you can jump in our youtube channel and subscribe

and be a part of that channel because there's tons of information in there on everything i just talked

about and you can watch it you can watch the episodes like we try very carefully now to

keep our episodes around 15 minutes so you can like watch a 15 minute segment and then you can

watch part two part three part four so that way you can take it all in instead of i don't like i

don't have the time to sit down and watch a youtube channel for 52 minutes i can't do it all at once

so i have to come back to it come back to it so we decided to uh to be more conscious of your time

and to make sure that we do 15 minute segments keep it around 15 so you can watch the whole segment

and come back for episode episode two three or four just like this i'm i'm way over time today

but we will get back on track but these are heavy-duty segments where you've got to really

understand all the pieces and parts that i'm talking about and trying to teach you because

there's money in the bank there's money to put back in the bank for you and i'd like to see you get

there but you have to buy in you have to be all in and say i didn't know that i gotta change that

immediately yeah because you're all working hard we all are trading time for money trading time away

from our families time with our families and our children uh for what is my ukrainian friend used

to always say for cash papita and i'd say louis what is what's papita paper he says that's what we

call money papita paper he says we we work like animals in a field for paper that really changed

my mindset that was about 30 plus years ago cash papita he says we gotta be stupid we take time

away from our families to go and chase paper yeah there is some really good thought in that

yeah peace of mind you cannot put a price on peace of mind so until next morning we'll see a

following morning at eight a.m for motormouth morning drive come and join us again i hope

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an hour or would you rather me stick with a 30 minute segment because we got to get everything

in there i got to make sure we get our program partners in there and give them a pitch because

they're backing us you know nobody's throwing cash at us or anything and we're starting from scratch

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