squeeling brakes....

[Craig Martin 2]

What pads do you guys use....I'm getting less then a year before they start to squeal like a stuck pig!! there is a ton of pad still and the rotors are not scored at all....HELP my ears are crying!!!

 

[swshawaii]

Love my Wagner ThermoQuiet Ceramics, have yet to hear a sound. Rotor condition is also very important.

 

[Yardsale]

I am using Wagner SevereDuty Pads (ceramic-enhanced metallic) and have been satisfied. I do a fair amount of mountain driving and this is a great improvement. The pads take a couple seconds to warm-up, but once warm, they bite hard and don't fade (better than OEM and ThermoQuiet, IMO). I haven't noticed abnormal rotor wear or dust.



Do you bed the pads after install?

 

[Mark Price 2]

+1 Wagner ThermoQuiet. I have the semi-metallic. Sounds like you have cheap pads. Try and lube up the "ears"(tabs) on the pads and where the ears ride on the "slippers"(metal clips/brake hardware). Clean the slippers with a wire brush as well. Lube anywhere the caliper touches the back of the pad(obviously, not the pad surface). I use anti-seize for the lube. I also use silicone paste by 3M or Sil-Glyde on the caliper slide pins.

 

[Craig Martin 2]

I had brake service on them at the beginning of the summer and it quieted them down for a little bit. I'm going to wait until next spring after the wedding and do them again....but I'll be maknig a road trip down to the states and have it done there......

 

[Richard L]

Kegger,

Squealing brakes is caused by vibration of the pads.



Assuming you had the brake rotors turned or replaced, the first thing I would recommend is that you check and lube any place where there is metal to metal contact between the brake pad backing plates and the caliper and sliding pins. The pins and the pad backing plate ears should be lubed with high temperature brake grease, and if your brake pads don't have isolation pads (slippers) you need to be sure that have a layer of high temperature silicone brake RTV on the pad backing plates to prevent metal to metal contact between the brake pads and any part of the calipers or piston.



Many shops do a cheap brake job and just slap new brake pads in and call that a "Brake Job".



If the shop did not turn or replace the rotors that often leads to noisy brakes because they probably did not lube the metal to metal contacts.



It also helps if the leading and trailing edge of the friction material on the brakes is beveled so the rotor does not catch a sharp edge and cause the pads to vibrate.



...Rich

 

[EddieS'04]

Many of your budjet shops use the cheapest semi-metalic pads. The edges are not beveled or not enough. The pads dont have the newest tech in the way of anti-sqeul pad on the back. I have noticed some seem to have, too much metal in the composition. They will sound fine at first.



The budjet AZ albany pads use to be that way. I dont buy them so I dont know about now. Last ones I seen was. I helped my B-inlaw put some on a ford escort. they were noisey. I told him to exchange them for a bettter qaulity. We did and, no more noise.