Alter the Brake Pads on a 2005 KIA Sportage
Kia recommends that you see your 2005 Kia Sportage's brake pads and interchange them every 35,000 miles. The brake pads may depend upon replacement sooner than that extension based on driving habits and other environmental factors. Listen for the alert if by the brake pads' wear indicators. The indicators are metal clips that scrape the surface of the rotor when the pads include reached the location that they need replacement. The scraping or squealing can be heard while braking to denote the essential to install dissimilar brake pads.
Instructions
1. Grounds the Kia on a consistent plan surface and accommodation blocks in front of the front tires to prevent the Sportage from rolling forward.
2. Administer the Kia's hood and remove the masterly cylinder cap. Slide the brake pads from the inside of the Kia's rear brake calipers.10. Deposit the C-clamp over the caliper piston on the inside of the caliper and the back side of the rear caliper. Screw the C-clamp lever to coercion the piston inside the caliper's side.
3. Loosen the lug nuts on the rear wheels with the lug wrench.
4. Lift the back of the Kia with the jack and rest the frame of the vehicle on two jack stands.
5. Remove the lugs and takings the rear wheels from the shove bolts of the vehicle.
6. Remove the caliper slide bolts on the rear brake meeting with the 13-mm wrench.
7. Lift the caliper from the rotor and caliper bracket.
8. Manipulate a team of needle-nosed pliers to pull the spring clips that bind the brake pads to the inside of the caliper out from the side of the caliper.
9. The cap can be inaugurate on the appropriate side of the engine compartment, near the windscreen. Accommodation a shop rag over the container's opening. This Testament cook miserable the caliper pistons in the outlook steps, easier.
Unscrew the C-clamp and remove it from the brake caliper.
11. Slide the distinct brake pads onto the caliper and transform the spring clips to locate the pads in settle.
12. Country the caliper with virgin brake pads installed, onto the caliper bracket on the Sportage's rear rotors.
13. Screw in the caliper bolts with the wrench.
14. Alternate the rear wheels onto the Kia's rear rotate bolts. Screw on the lug nuts.
15. Lift the back purpose of the Kia using the jack and remove the jack stands. Lower the rear tires to the ground and tighten the back wheels' lug nuts with the lug wrench.
16. Put the tire blocks persist the rear tires.
17.Repeat the evolution (steps 3-15) for the front brakes.
18. Probation the alike of brake fluid inside the skilled cylinder reservoir. Fill the container with fluid as necessary. Kia recommends using brake fluid rated DOT-3.
19. Replace the master cylinder cap and close the Sportage's hood.
