Pulsating Brake Pedal When Stopping Slowly Below 20 MPH: Causes, Diagnosis, and How Serious It Is
A pulsating or pulsing brake pedal when stopping slowly below 20 mph is most commonly caused by brake rotor lateral runout: commonly called warped rotors: where the rotor surface is not perfectly flat and causes the brake pad to ride up and down on the high and low spots as the wheel slows, transmitting that […]
Transmission Fluid Leak Symptoms: Slipping and Burning Smell Together
When transmission slipping and a burning smell occur together, the automatic transmission is operating with critically low or severely degraded fluid, and continued driving risks destroying the clutch packs and band friction material within a single trip. These two symptoms together are not a coincidence: they are sequential events driven by the same cause. Fluid […]