Freelander 1 Front brake squeal

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freelounger said:
I can't believe you've fitted the very same ebay special discs as mine this week.
I've had grooved and dimpled discs on another car and, while you can hear the sound they make, it isn't irritating and the brakes feel more "immediate." Which I think will be a good upgrade for the freelander. Although the kit that was on there was in such poor condition that even a return to stock components would have been a massive improvement.
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M-Tec have been around for years, and in my experience represent good value. Ok they're not Brembo or Willwood, but they're ok for a road biased car.
Our Audi A5 convertible really puts them through their paces, and they survive just fine on that, but they are considerably larger than the FL1 at 330mm.
 
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kernowsvenski said:
I've never had any worries. I've just always felt they are not as good brakes on other vehicles I've driven
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The FL1 is under braked compared to modern cars. The rotors are small, and so mechanical advantage isn't as good as it could be. Increased rotor diameter would be an advantage, if a compatible vehicle with bigger brakes could be used as a doner. I did look at potentially using the brakes off a Honda Civic type R, but never got round to making up a test strut.
 
Yes on hard braking but not noticeable with normal brake pedal pressure...

Left one has started to squeal ! Argh...
 
Well, that's ok then... Same product, same problems!

I think, if I was shopping for new discs again, I might have spent an extra penny and got the EBC version... But I can live with these.
Mine had a sqeak on first take-up for quite a while -- I think that's gone now. I don't know whether to bother doing the yellow-pad "green fade" break-in.
I've only done 250 miles as yet.
 
I thought I'd report back on the drilled and grooved discs now that they've been on the best part of a month. There is a definite improvement compared to the standard discs, allbeit modest mind. There is a noticeable increase in noise when breaking hard-ish at speed but it's not significant. No squeeling here yet!

All in all I would say that so far, they seem well worth fitting, especially for the price.
 
kernowsvenski said:
I thought I'd report back on the drilled and grooved discs now that they've been on the best part of a month
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It's nice that your brakes were good enough "before" to paint a fair picture of "after." I definitely couldn't have done that with mine.
I've done 600 miles on the new discs, pads and calipers and the braking has gone from really awful (prior to fitting) to awfully good, now. That noise/vibration when braking hard can perplex passengers a little.
 
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