Originally Posted by Jimmy Footski
Just took the car around the corner to National Tyre's and asked them to clean the rear discs and pads up......When I collected the car I was told that one of the N/S/R caliper pins had seized ???? Would this be causing brake squeal ???
The squeak is usually caused when one of the brake pads is slightly stuck on. There are a number of reasons this can happen, the most common being the brake pad becoming stuck in its slider. This is due to a build up of corrosion on the slider. The best solution is to remove the whole unit, take out the pins and rubbers that the calliper attaches to and then clean it up with a wire wheel. Once the carrier's sparkly new, give it a quick coat of paint and reassemble, making sure you use grease on the pins and copper grease on the sliders and make sure the pads move freely in the carrier.
The noise is the new pads on the discs IMO.. If the noise doesn't go away in the next 3/4 days then I have just the remedy.
