Brakes question

n00b on demand · #1 07-01-2006, 11:33 AM

I just had my rear rotors and pads done. Coming home my brakes squeal like hell when you apply the pedal. Cant tell if its coming from the back or the front. It didnt squeal like this before. Do they need to break in or something? When I first took the car out from the shop it made a weird noise so i took it back in and they did something with the rear rotors and now that noise is gone. Now I am getting a squealing noise like the pads are low. I didn't get the fronts done because they said it was ok. They didn't squeal like this before. Any ideas?

Beav · #2 07-01-2006, 12:04 PM

Take it back again, they shouldn't squeal straight out of the box.

n00b on demand · #3 07-01-2006, 12:13 PM

Well i came back home....i was fed up being there for all that time and i had things to do. I guess Ill take it back monday morning. It sounds as if its coming from the front from what i can tell. They didn't do anything with the front though...why would they squeal now and not before?

n00b on demand · #4 07-03-2006, 07:52 AM

Took the car back in today and I think he said he had the brake pad on too tight or something like that. Whatever the case is everything is all good now. He said if there was anything else to just bring it back to him.

Beav · #5 07-03-2006, 07:21 PM

Cough...cough....cough...bs...cough.....

Good that you got it fixed.

n00b on demand · #6 07-03-2006, 09:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Beav

Cough...cough....cough...bs...cough.....

Good that you got it fixed.

what do you think it was then? he took that one wheel off and did something with the pads and put the wheel on. I was watching what he was doing through the window at the shop.

SVX-FF · #7 07-03-2006, 09:26 PM

An old shop trick is to bevel the pads edged if they squeal. When the pads wear past the bevel they might squeal again.

If the pads were on to tight then they would be draging. That was a total bs cover. Who's pads did they use?

Steve

Beav · #8 07-03-2006, 09:48 PM

Probably just a piece of hardware, a shim or the backing plate rubbing a bit. Never fails to amaze me that people can't just say "Oops". When you consider what we're made of, it's amazing that we do as well as we do - so what's the problem with admitting to a simple mistake?

n00b on demand · #9 07-03-2006, 11:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Beav

Probably just a piece of hardware, a shim or the backing plate rubbing a bit. Never fails to amaze me that people can't just say "Oops". When you consider what we're made of, it's amazing that we do as well as we do - so what's the problem with admitting to a simple mistake?

ah well the brakes are warrantied anyway so if I have a problem i can just bring it back to them. The guy seemed like a nice honest guy....I'm good at picking the good ones.

Cho · #10 07-04-2006, 02:01 PM

Save yourself the trouble and get veltelated rotors and some performance brakes. The squeaking should never be heard again untill u have raced the pads to nothing left. That should solve the problem pretty fast.

n00b on demand · #11 07-04-2006, 11:35 PM

its un ****ing real i swear....coming home today the rear left started squealing just like the other side. Now i gotta take it back in tomorrow and yell my ass off

Beav · #12 07-05-2006, 04:28 PM

Yelling won't get you a good job. Just express your frustration and disappointment - that should be good enough to get them to cough up some free work in the future like an oil change maybe.

Suby Fan · #13 07-05-2006, 04:38 PM

i second what beav said above.... i smell semi metalic pads...

and not the $20 cost ones at NAPA... ohhh no the off brand name they had in the basment

n00b on demand · #14 07-05-2006, 08:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Beav

Yelling won't get you a good job. Just express your frustration and disappointment - that should be good enough to get them to cough up some free work in the future like an oil change maybe.

Wasnt going to yell and scream but I was definitley going to vent my frustration. I have better things to do than to go back and forth to the shop every morning. I won't even ask for anything free...just that they take time to fix the problem so I won't have to return. This is just so annoying....one minute your like hey its fixed...then you pull in the driveway and you hear squealing again

dmnknightomega6 · #15 07-06-2006, 10:31 PM

It happened to my previous car.... if you changed rotors maybe the caliper does not open all the way back after you press on them brakes. Also wrong pads or rotor thickness spec? it can also be the rotor is not bedded in even against the hub.

spacing on the brake system is very precise. suggest they take it apart and put them back..... it will just take time.