The brake pads are the part of the disc braking system of your car that actually bears the brunt, along with the brake rotors, of the friction necessary in order to bring your car to a stop. Your Volvo 850 brake pads are an absolutely essential part of the overall braking system, because without the brake pads there wouldn’t be a surface to use to impact the rotors, or discs, with, and there wouldn’t be any truly effective way to bring your vehicle to a stop safely. Brake pads work very, very hard in applying the friction to the brake rotors, and since they do work so hard, they are highly vulnerable to wear and tear.

For brake pads this wear and tear generally means that the padding of the brake pad is wearing down, and this is usually accompanied by a grinding noise, an annoying but highly useful alert for changing your Volvo 850 brake pads as soon as possible. If the grinding continues to take place unabated, the exposed metal of the brake caliper, which the brake pad is attached to, can potentially do some pretty bad damage to the brake rotor, and then you’re in for a whole new set of problems.

It’s much better to check for the signs indicating that the pads are wearing a bit thin and subsequently change them, as opposed to waiting too long and having to take more drastic, costly measures, such as having to actually replace calipers and more likely, rotors.If you need new Volvo 850 brake pads, we’ve certainly got them right here.