The prime safety feature of any car is the braking system. The condition of your brakes is doubly important with a Porsche. When your engine’s providing a heart-thumping 400, 600, or even 800 horsepower, you need to be absolutely certain that your brakes won’t ever let you down. Let’s take a look at three excellent reasons to head to your local Porsche dealer for routine brake service.
Check Your Rotors
A Porsche is a perfectly-proportioned machine. Every single component is designed with fine weight considerations that require reductions in the typical bulk and material weight of various parts. One part of a Porsche reduced in this way is the rotor discs, which are thinner than usual. Porsche has now begun making their rotors from tungsten carbide, one of the hardest materials on Earth, but they’re still susceptible to scoring and warping under too much pressure and heat over time.
All rotors sometimes warp or develop grooves when they become overheated. Any such structural damage can reduce the effectiveness of your brakes, and even lead to brake fade and failure. For these reasons, it’s essential to have your rotors examined often.
Replace Worn Pads
The brake pads are the parts that clamp against the rotor to stop your car. No matter the quality of materials used, brake pads always wear down, as each press of your brake pedal sees a minuscule amount of the pad’s surface scraped away.
The upper, high-friction layer of a brake pad is a composite of metals and resin. When this layer is finally worn away, your Porsche will warn you with an unpleasant screeching sound. But a routine brake check will alert you to worn down pads long before this point, and make sure that your pads are always in tip-top condition.
Find Small Leaks
You’re most likely using one of Porsche’s own brands of superior brake fluid, such as Pentosin Super DOT 4. This liquid serves as a hydraulic fluid, allowing your foot on the pedal to apply immense force to the pistons in your braking mechanisms. Even a tiny leak of brake fluid is highly dangerous as it reduces this hydraulic pressure, leading to spongy or ineffective brakes.
If you ever see a brown or yellow-tinted liquid that smells like fish oil pooling under your car, you probably have leaking brake fluid. Such a leak might not at once be noticeable, but a routine service of your brakes will always catch it.
How Your Porsche Dealer Provides Peace of Mind
Just as you care for your physical health with routine trips to your doctor and dentist, a routine check-up at your local dealership also gives you peace of mind. You never know what little problems might be developing inside your brake mechanism. Far better to catch them early than see them become something far more troublesome and costly down the road.
For world-class servicing of your braking system by experienced Porsche professionals, visit Porsche Stevens Creek. We strive to provide Porsche drivers from all over South Carolina with nothing less than excellence in customer service.
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