How to Install Back Brake Pads on a Hyundai

Replacing rear brake pads in a Hyundai is not an overly difficult job. It will require some tools and some technical know-how. The benefit to replacing your own pads is the money you can save on expensive labor charges at dealerships or local repair shops. Many places will try to sell you the warranty on the brake pads as well as the pads themselves. However, a good quality brake pad from the parts store is going to have the exact same lifetime warranty as the repair shop is trying to promote and inflating their prices in order to do so. Dust off those tools in the garage and give it a try.

Instructions

1

Park the Hyundai on a flat paved or concrete surface. Release the hood latch.

2

Place a wheel chock in front of one of the front tires and open the hood.

3

Locate the master cylinder reservoir on the upper firewall on the driver's side. Remove the cap and suck out half of the brake fluid from the master cylinder using the turkey baster. Discard the fluid properly and do not reuse it. Replace the cap on the master cylinder securely.

4

Break the lug nuts loose on the left rear wheel using the breaking bar and a 21 millimeter socket.

5

Raise the left rear quarter of the Hyundai with the floor jack and place the jack stand under the rocker panel close to the rear tire.

6

Remove the lug nuts and wheel.

7

Locate and remove the lower caliper bolt using the ratchet and socket.

8

Pry the caliper upward off of the rotor and pads using the screwdriver. The upper caliper bolt on most Hyundai's pivots and does not need to be removed unless you're replacing rotors as well.

9

Compress the piston of the caliper inward using the C-clamp. Tighten the clamp slowly and compress the piston inward until it bottoms out flush with the caliper housing. Remove the C-clamp.

10

Hold the caliper up and pry the pads out of the caliper anchor using the screwdriver.

11

Squeeze some silicone brake lubricant onto bristles of the acid brush. Apply it to the bottom and top caliper anchor spots where the tab of the pads backing plate seat into.

12

Apply the stick-on shims of the pads (most likely in the box of pads or already staked on with rivets) and insert into the caliper anchor.

13

Replace the caliper over the pads and rotor and tighten the caliper bolt tightly with the ratchet and socket. Do not over-tighten, but make sure it's snug.

14

Replace the wheel and lug nuts. Tighten snug with the ratchet and 21 millimeter socket. Then lower the Hyundai and re-tighten the lug nuts with the adjustable torque wrench set at 80 foot pounds.

15

Repeat the steps on the right rear wheel and brakes.

16

Pump the brake foot pedal of the Hyundai when you're done and it is back on the ground. This will restore the hydraulic pressure back to the compressed calipers. Check and adjust the brake fluid in the master cylinder after you've pumped the brake foot pedal and it feels normal. Only add new DOT-approved brake fluid to the master cylinder.

17

Remove the wheel chock and test drive.