Brutal Says: On brake squeel Ive found it more oftens happens to those that are "light frequent" brakers, which is mostly women since we men tend to drive alittle more aggressivly. Light braking tends to build deposits, or basically "polishes" the pad and rotor surfaces.
Semi metalllics while great performers tend do this to light brakers. My "temporary fix" its to clean the surfaces which meens panic braking a few times forward and in reverse. This cleans deposits or the glazing from the surfaces and will stop the squeeling. May need to be done more than that depending on the amount and how bad.


I just wanted to thank Brutal for the idea of "panic stopping" to stop the squeeling of the brakes on my S-Type. I didn't realize I was a "light braker" as he described but I guess I down shift a lot and engine brake with my 5 speed manual transmission and only uise the brakes to bring the car to a stop.

Last night on the way home from work I got up to about 70 mph several times and STOOD on the brake pedal causing an ABS event several times. By the time I got home the squeeling had completely stopped!! I had never heard of this before. So kudos to Brutal!!! Thanks Bro.

 

Lol, glad youre happy. The only aside i would make is it's better to do after you've warmed the brakes alittle before you panic brake. It also doesnt have to be fast as i normally do it in the parking lot at work. You can also really feel the differance in pad bite when clean too, they bite much better..

 

stoptech had an article on bedding new pads which is similar. The single refinement is to not hold at the end of the stop to avoid warpage/runout/deposits/bending/waffling/non-parallelism/some other term

they suggest releasing the pedal and letting the last bit of motion roll out without braking

the emergency brake might be good for the last bit as they are a separate set of friction materials

 

LOL - ABS coming on is not required!!

+1 on the above (incl what Brutal said) - yes, don't come to a full stop i.e. don't hold the pads on without motion as you risk depositing more pad material.

 

I didn't come to a full stop. It wasn't necessary. I was running down a back road here in Georgia and just slammed the brakes on to "bed" the pads real good. A couple times the ABS event shook the brake pedal so I figured the pads were clean...............


Thanks again!

 

I appreciate your taking time and submitting this thread , well done