I have been doing my own brakes for almost 35 years and after my experience with new vehicles i may be done. Did my front pads today on my '21 Suburban, rear was still at 70% so didnt see the need, and had it towed to a shop. Did everything correct, turned it on and it lit up like a Christmas tree! Didnt even know there was a service mode, but either way there was no brake pressure, aka barely stopped when moving. Fluid was topped off too. My pride is hurt and hopefully my wallet will be saved. Lesson learned just pay someone else for these new fangled cars 😂
I had the exact same issue. I bought a cheap OBD2 scanner and reset the system and everything works fine. Scanner was $60. My advice is to buy it before you start the brake job. Because it is not safe to drive until it is reset. I have a 2021 GMC Yukon 6.2L gas engine.
Thank you for the video! I'm glad I watched this before replacing the front pads on my '21 Yukon 2WD. My older Yukons, Suburbans, and Tahoes didn't have the brake wear sensor so I would have been in for a heck of surprise after starting the vehicle and seeing all of the warning lights and error messages! Other than that, everything went pretty smoothly and was pretty straight forward. One note for those who haven't attempted this yet - the brake wear sensor is only on the driver's side so doing the passenger side is very straight forward.
Very good review. Especially view of how to remove that sensor. I left old one on there as I couldn’t remove it. After watching your vid I was able to switch out. However, now that I have new sensor the brake life is still at 19% and won’t update. Any suggestions?
@@katieepps1149 I believe you can cycle through the menu settings with directional pad on the steering wheel and manually reset the brake pad life that way
The factory service manual says this. I've figured out that it's especially important to do this before you push the caliper pistons in or you'll get various errors.
Need this comment pinned to the top. A GM tech thats a good friend of mine told me not to do anything until the negative us unhooked. I did that and had 0 codes when i was done.
Great video. Did you need to do anything with the electronic system for brakes? I read somewhere about putting the brake system into service mode. Maybe bleeding off the fluid instead of pushing it back into the lines bypassed that need?
9 times out of 10 front brakes are completely mechanical and don’t need to be put in service mode, if it has the feature. However these modern vehicles that have electronic parking brakes for the rear brakes, yes you may/need to put the vehicle in service mode to service the brakes
@@samuelanguiano7406 after you change brake pads your pedal should be hard once you start it your pedal should go back to normal. Clear the codes with a scan tool
same thing happened to me, so i connected the obd reader and clear the code, its breaking normall but still have the service break system and greyed out the breakpad life. i think you have to go to the dealer to reset the breaking system or find machanic friend with right computer system to reset it. it just needs to be reset.
The reservoir cap? I don’t really see how that benefits the caliper, it’s not like a radiator cap it doesn’t hold pressure. By using a straw it pushes out the old fluid, while introducing new fluid and since fluid sits in the straw and is connected to the bleeder there’s never an opportunity for air to enter the system. Once you close the bleeder with straw attached only fresh fluid can fill the caliper
so THEORETICALLY you could get away with doing this: don't disconnect the wear sensor from the wiring ( just unhook it from its support so its not in the way), just detach the wear sensor from brake pad and reinstall it on the new pads ( if wear sensor in good shape). This way the cars computer doesnt require any resetting, bc you never unplugged it from the system. And the brake pad wear system can be just resetted on your dash. OOOOOOOR disconnect the battery the night before you do the job. Thank you for showing me i can easily do a PAD SLAP on these cars without taking the caliper off.
I have been doing my own brakes for almost 35 years and after my experience with new vehicles i may be done. Did my front pads today on my '21 Suburban, rear was still at 70% so didnt see the need, and had it towed to a shop. Did everything correct, turned it on and it lit up like a Christmas tree! Didnt even know there was a service mode, but either way there was no brake pressure, aka barely stopped when moving. Fluid was topped off too. My pride is hurt and hopefully my wallet will be saved. Lesson learned just pay someone else for these new fangled cars 😂
How did you get it fixed?
@@TheMotivationMondayIf you have a code reader that can clear codes, just clear them. Should solve it. If not theres something else going on.
I had the exact same issue. I bought a cheap OBD2 scanner and reset the system and everything works fine. Scanner was $60. My advice is to buy it before you start the brake job. Because it is not safe to drive until it is reset. I have a 2021 GMC Yukon 6.2L gas engine.
Thank you for the video! I'm glad I watched this before replacing the front pads on my '21 Yukon 2WD. My older Yukons, Suburbans, and Tahoes didn't have the brake wear sensor so I would have been in for a heck of surprise after starting the vehicle and seeing all of the warning lights and error messages! Other than that, everything went pretty smoothly and was pretty straight forward.
One note for those who haven't attempted this yet - the brake wear sensor is only on the driver's side so doing the passenger side is very straight forward.
I’ll be using this video to do this job this coming weekend. Perfectly done video. Thank you.
I payed $250 at the Chevy dealer to reboot my brake system after I replaced my front brake pads, a simple job turned pricey.
Is everyone getting brake squeal on these new GM SUV’s when brake pads still have 75-50% of their life remaining?
Yeah that was when I first got the truck
Must have sticking hardware or piston . Drive hard and tow 87000 just got the squealer hitting today. No noise from 0 miles
Very good review. Especially view of how to remove that sensor. I left old one on there as I couldn’t remove it. After watching your vid I was able to switch out. However, now that I have new sensor the brake life is still at 19% and won’t update. Any suggestions?
@@katieepps1149 I believe you can cycle through the menu settings with directional pad on the steering wheel and manually reset the brake pad life that way
Great video. Assuming this is the same for the 21 Tahoe High Country as well?
Thank you, and yes the repair should be identical
Tip. Disconnect negative battery terminal first.
The factory service manual says this. I've figured out that it's especially important to do this before you push the caliper pistons in or you'll get various errors.
Need this comment pinned to the top. A GM tech thats a good friend of mine told me not to do anything until the negative us unhooked. I did that and had 0 codes when i was done.
Great video. Did you need to do anything with the electronic system for brakes? I read somewhere about putting the brake system into service mode. Maybe bleeding off the fluid instead of pushing it back into the lines bypassed that need?
9 times out of 10 front brakes are completely mechanical and don’t need to be put in service mode, if it has the feature. However these modern vehicles that have electronic parking brakes for the rear brakes, yes you may/need to put the vehicle in service mode to service the brakes
I just did this job and now I have abs, brake, check engine light with hard brake pedal. Any help out there would be much appreciated.
@@samuelanguiano7406 after you change brake pads your pedal should be hard once you start it your pedal should go back to normal. Clear the codes with a scan tool
I cleared the codes with my blue driver. Drove it still hard.
Codes gone only check engine light on now. Brake pedal is bake to normal.
Thank you all codes are clear now but I cannot reset brake life percentage to 100%. Any help is much appreciated.
same thing happened to me, so i connected the obd reader and clear the code, its breaking normall but still have the service break system and greyed out the breakpad life.
i think you have to go to the dealer to reset the breaking system or find machanic friend with right computer system to reset it.
it just needs to be reset.
What city u located in? Need some work done
I think it's orange county NY.
Unionville if this is the young man I think it is.
Where did you get that pick from, that you took the sensor off with?
@@korah06 Amazon/ auto parts store
Do I always have to replace the sensor with replacing brake pads?
not if sensor is untouched, if the sensor has even minimal wear, you do have to change it
Is it the same brake sensor part number for both front side? Just wanted to make sure for the orientation of the connectors
There is only 1 sensor
Do you need to reset anything electronically with the brake wear sensor
At 12:03 the brake pad wear sensor reset should pop up when you start the truck
Just open the brake reservoir and you don’t have to worry about sucking in air at the bleed screw.
The reservoir cap? I don’t really see how that benefits the caliper, it’s not like a radiator cap it doesn’t hold pressure. By using a straw it pushes out the old fluid, while introducing new fluid and since fluid sits in the straw and is connected to the bleeder there’s never an opportunity for air to enter the system. Once you close the bleeder with straw attached only fresh fluid can fill the caliper
Where are you located? What state? I noticed your vehicle looks pretty good underneath.
so THEORETICALLY you could get away with doing this: don't disconnect the wear sensor from the wiring ( just unhook it from its support so its not in the way), just detach the wear sensor from brake pad and reinstall it on the new pads ( if wear sensor in good shape). This way the cars computer doesnt require any resetting, bc you never unplugged it from the system. And the brake pad wear system can be just resetted on your dash. OOOOOOOR disconnect the battery the night before you do the job.
Thank you for showing me i can easily do a PAD SLAP on these cars without taking the caliper off.
where did you get the spread tool from
Amazon
I did this job and havent had any messages or able to reset the break pad sensor still reads at 25%
@@edgarchavez3 did you disconnect the battery when you started the job? Also did you replace the brake pad wear sensor?
@ i did not disconnect the battery and did replace the pad wear sensor
@ cycle through your menu options with the directional pad on the steering wheel you. You should be able to reset it manually
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