Among the small maintenance works that you should do regularly on your car, to fill up the brake fluid level of your Mercedes Benz GLA Class is one of the most classics. Nevertheless this act is very easy to complete, some of you are almost certainly questioning why to do the brake fluid level on your car? And others are wondering how to do the brake fluid level on your Mercedes Benz GLA Class? We will now answer these questions.

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Benefit to always have the brake fluid level up in your Mercedes Benz GLA Class

So we start our guideline with the significance of checking the brake fluid level on a Mercedes Benz GLA Class. This fluid has an important task on your car, transmit the braking power to the wheels and thus stop your automobile. However, it is possible that with time you may lose brake fluid without any particular leak (without any leakage). It is as a result important to examine the brake fluid level of your Mercedes Benz GLA Class frequently (every 10,000km for example). It is also wise to flush the system every 50,000km because after some time the brake fluid will lose its features. This operation is extremely simple and does not require advanced expertise of mechanics, so it is easy for all Mercedes Benz GLA Class owners to do it themselves. If the Brake light on the dashboard of your Mercedes Benz GLA Class does not match to a lack of brake fluid, do not be reluctant to have a look at our guideline for details. However, there are some measures and rules to follow that we will see in the following part of this guideline.

How to fill up the brake fluid of a Mercedes Benz GLA Class

So now we will learn to you how to do the brake fluid level on a Mercedes Benz GLA Class. Please notice that this is very basic to complete. However, you will have to examine which brake fluid is the right one for you between DOT 3, DOT 4 and DOT 5. Most vehicles use either DOT 3 or DOT 4. You will obtain this data in the user manual of your Mercedes Benz GLA Class. Now here are the steps to stick to to make your level:

  • Open your cover and identify your brake fluid reservoir, it is very easy to find, it is in most cases made of whitish/transparent plastic, it is placed over the master cylinder (metal part) and has a yellow cap.
  • Once identified, browse the instructions on the cap attentively so as not to make any problems during the operation, we recommend 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 check out 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 sufficient 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 suitable for your Mercedes Benz GLA Class up to the mark “Max”.
  • If the level was under the “Min” mark before you checked the brake fluid level in your Mercedes Benz GLA Class, be sure to examine the level in a few days/weeks to make sure you don’t have a leak in the brake system

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That’s it, you now have all the info you need to safely and securely fill the brake fluid level of your Mercedes Benz GLA Class.

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