Among the small service works that you should do regularly on your car, to fill up the brake fluid level of your Hyundai Accent is one of the great classics. Although this process is simple to conduct, some of you are most probably wanting to know why to do the brake fluid level on your car? And others are worried about how to do the brake fluid level on your Hyundai Accent? We will now answer these questions.

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Advantage to always have the brake fluid level up in your Hyundai Accent

So we start our article with the significance of looking at the brake fluid level on a Hyundai Accent. This fluid has a crucial task on your car, transmit the braking power to the wheels and thus stop your vehicle. However, it is possible that as time passes you may lose brake fluid without any particular leak (without any leakage). It is as a result imperative to check the brake fluid level of your Hyundai Accent often (every 10,000km for example). It is also beneficial to flush the system every 50,000km because after some time the brake fluid loses its properties. This process is specially simple and does not require amazing knowledge of mechanics, so it is easy for all Hyundai Accent owners to do it on their own. If the Brake light on the dashboard of your Hyundai Accent does not correspond to a lack of brake fluid, do not be reluctant to seek advice from our article for details. However, there are some precautions and rules to follow that we will see in the following part of this article.

How to fill up the brake fluid of a Hyundai Accent

So now we will show to you how to do the brake fluid level on a Hyundai Accent. Please notice that this is very elementary to do. However, you will have to check which brake fluid is the right one for you between DOT 3, DOT 4 and DOT 5. Most automobiles use either DOT 3 or DOT 4. You will get this information in the user manual of your Hyundai Accent. Now here are the steps to stick to to make your level:

  • Open your hood and find your brake fluid reservoir, it is very easy to identify, it is generally made of whitish/transparent plastic, it is based above the master cylinder (metal part) and has a yellow cap.
  • Once established, read the instructions on the cap cautiously so as not to make any problems within the the process, we encourage you to clean the cap and the tank before opening. You will now be able to take a look at the side of the tank and observe the “Min” and “Max” marks on the side of the tank, which give you the range in which the level should be.
  • If the level is enough do not touch anything, or if you are close to or below the low mark, open the cap and fill it gently with the brake fluid appropriate for your Hyundai Accent up to the mark “Max”.
  • If the level was beneath the “Min” mark before you checked the brake fluid level in your Hyundai Accent, make sure check the level in a few days/weeks to ensure that you don’t have a leak in the brake system

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That’s it, you now have all the information you need to safely and securely fill the brake fluid level of your Hyundai Accent.

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