Where to fill the brake fluid?

The space under the hood of the car is so saturatedmechanisms and capacities that an uninitiated person does not immediately understand what and where is located. But there are times when you personally have to "service" the car, for this, remember where the brake fluid is poured.

With a serviceable brake system, there is no needadd the brake fluid, as it is in a closed loop and practically does not disappear anywhere, however, as soon as defects appear in the system, the liquid will find its way out. There are also compensation holes in the system. To understand immediately where the brake fluid goes is possible after a preliminary visual inspection of the main components of the system. Vulnerable places can be: a tank and the main brake cylinder under the hood, working cylinders on wheels, brake hoses. Usually, after an overnight stay in the vicinity of these places, you can find traces of digging on the asphalt.

If a leak is detected,service for qualified help, but first you need to know yourself where to fill in the brake fluid. If you have instructions for using the vehicle, the brake fluid reservoir is easy to find, but this instruction is not always available.

Open the bonnet of the engine compartment of the car. The reservoir, as a rule, is located along the perimeter at the edge of the engine compartment. The location depends on the model of the car. The body of a container of white plastic with transparent properties (you can see the volume of a dark liquid). Often, the cap of the tank has the symbol of the brake system "exclamation point in a circle with brackets". Its color is yellow or black. The sensor has been built in the cover, from which the wires and the dip-float must depart, this is the next distinctive feature.