I just replaced all rotors and pads, and I can't seem to figure out where this damn squeak is coming from. This squeak varies with speed and stops i mmediatelywhen I start applying the brakes. Does any one know what this could be? I don't think it could have anything with the hub or bearing because applying the breaks make it dissappear.
-Houndz

 

Hello again Houndz, this is a hell of a coincidence - mine was doing this too 2/3 months after I replaced my discs and pads.

Again my brother sussed out that the pads had gone brittle and shiny with probably getting hot. He thinks that because the car is so heavy that if you are braking hard that the pads will get extremely hot and then will go brittle and shiny.

He says that the pads do slightly touch the discs when you're driving normally and that is what the squeak is - the pads rubbing against the disc but in their brittle state. Once you apply the brakes , because they go full onto the disc, then the squeaking stops.

What he did was he roughed the pads up so that they weren't smooth any more and that has done the trick.

You don't happen to have a slight oil leak as well do you - that's my third problem?????

 

I honestly don't know what it is. I have had this problem when I bought the car 2 years ago. Replacing the pads as well as roughing them up doesn't make a difference. On the same day I replaced them it (the squeak) started happening again. Could I have a bad brake caliper? Could it be a bearing? Oh yeah I also have an oil leak. But I know it has to do with a bad seal on the valve covers, which was supposedly replaced but still leaks and drips in the exhaust manifold. I am beginning to hate this car.

-Houndz

 

Sport brakes will squeak a little