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Offline VWKev

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Squeeky Brakes
« on: 15 November 2010, 12:57 »
Anyone had squeeky brakes ?

It's not so bad when breaking hard, but when stuck in traffic and just doing gentle breaking, I will hear a squeek noise just before the car stops or a sort of grinding noise as its about to stop.
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Re: Squeeky breaks
« Reply #1 on: 15 November 2010, 12:57 »
spelling fail, that of course should be Brakes   :grin:
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Re: Squeeky breaks
« Reply #2 on: 15 November 2010, 13:03 »
Quote from: VWKev on 15 November 2010, 12:57
spelling fail, that of course should be Brakes   :grin:

Spelling fail twice:
Squeek should be squeak! :wink:
« Last Edit: 15 November 2010, 15:16 by am1w »
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Re: Squeeky Brakes
« Reply #3 on: 15 November 2010, 13:16 »
Normalish, the soloution is to do a few sharp stops from as high a speed as safe ...
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Re: Squeeky Brakes
« Reply #4 on: 15 November 2010, 17:42 »
Your car sounds like a taxi, Kev   :wink:
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Offline VWKev

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Re: Squeeky Brakes
« Reply #5 on: 15 November 2010, 20:53 »
Quote from: ub7rm on 15 November 2010, 13:16
Normalish, the soloution is to do a few sharp stops from as high a speed as safe ...

A few mates I have talked to said it is kinda normal too, but I never hear it in any other car I've been in.
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Re: Squeeky Brakes
« Reply #6 on: 15 November 2010, 21:02 »
Quote from: ub7rm on 15 November 2010, 13:16
Normalish, the soloution is to do a few sharp stops from as high a speed as safe ...

That's the answer...I find braking from 80-100 MPH down to approx 10-20 MPH (but not coming to a stop), with about 90% braking effort (hard, but not enough to trigger the ABS), then give 2-3 minutes to let the brakes cool off, repeat the procedure 2-3 times more...then drive round trying not to use the brakes much for the next 10-15 minutes will give the brake discs good coating of brake pad, which should stop any squealing.

I use this method for bedding in any new car or new brakes...and don't suffer from squealing so long as the pads aren't silly hard track pads.
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Re: Squeeky Brakes
« Reply #7 on: 16 November 2010, 07:44 »
Basically with light braking you have whats called glazed the pads. Its common on non aspestos(sp?) brake pads with light use.
Theres two solutions well 3 but the 3rd is new pads :grin: 1) brake hard a few times to take the glaze off as others have suggested. 2) The second is remove the pads and as a quick DIY solution rub the pads surface a few times on a concrete kerb to take the smoothness glaze off them. Then refit.
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Re: Squeeky Brakes
« Reply #8 on: 16 November 2010, 12:29 »
thanks all.

at least I know now there is nothing 'wrong' as such.
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Re: Squeeky Brakes
« Reply #9 on: 16 November 2010, 12:35 »
Squeaky brakes were a common thing on the MK5, Im assuming they are the same on the MK6? (Im honestly not saying that as some sort of wind up :D). In which case I wouldn't worry about them.

As ub7rm said a few hard quick stop from high speeds worked with varying degrees of success on MK5 brakes.
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