Squeaky Brakes on Freelander

Hi

We have a '98 Freelander whose front brakes squeak, mainly in dry weather
conditions.

The squeak is a continuous 'singing' which is worse when the front wheels
are turned, and eases up when the wheels are straightened up again.

We have had the brakes 'loosened up' and covered in copper colour stuff
twice now but the problem does not go away.

Anyone know what causes this, or know of a sure fire way of curing it ?

Would a new set of pads or discs do any good ?

Or should we just be thankful we don't have many dry days here in the West
Country :-/

Lofty

Lofty wrote:

> Hi
>
> We have a '98 Freelander whose front brakes squeak, mainly in dry weather
> conditions.
>
> The squeak is a continuous 'singing' which is worse when the front wheels
> are turned, and eases up when the wheels are straightened up again.
>
> We have had the brakes 'loosened up' and covered in copper colour stuff
> twice now but the problem does not go away.
>
> Anyone know what causes this, or know of a sure fire way of curing it ?

The symptoms are typical of brakes that have been overheated or that
have had cheap brake pads fitted (and consequently overheated due to the
cheap lining material).

Machine the rotors, or replace if necessary and fit a decent quality set
of brake pads - if you can find them the Remsa pads work very well,
don't squeal, and are cheap enough but leave a s#!tload of dust all over
your wheels.

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EMB
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Hi,

Sounds like you have non-genuine parts fitted I'm afraid ;-)

Experience tells you......

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Neil

Thanks for that advice, very helpful.

"EMB" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Lofty wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > We have a '98 Freelander whose front brakes squeak, mainly in dry
weather
> > conditions.
> >
> > The squeak is a continuous 'singing' which is worse when the front
wheels
> > are turned, and eases up when the wheels are straightened up again.
> >
> > We have had the brakes 'loosened up' and covered in copper colour stuff
> > twice now but the problem does not go away.
> >
> > Anyone know what causes this, or know of a sure fire way of curing it ?
>
> The symptoms are typical of brakes that have been overheated or that
> have had cheap brake pads fitted (and consequently overheated due to the
> cheap lining material).
>
> Machine the rotors, or replace if necessary and fit a decent quality set
> of brake pads - if you can find them the Remsa pads work very well,
> don't squeal, and are cheap enough but leave a s#!tload of dust all over
> your wheels.
>
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> EMB
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Thank you. I will get new discs and pads fitted I think.

"Neil Brownlee" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> Sounds like you have non-genuine parts fitted I'm afraid ;-)
>
> Experience tells you......
>
> --
> Neil
>
>

Neil Brownlee wrote:
>
> Sounds like you have non-genuine parts fitted I'm afraid ;-)
>
> Experience tells you......

It's not the parts being non-genuine that cause a problem, it's cheap
crap parts. A good quality non-genuine part will be the equal of the
genuine one, normally at a cheaper price. This especially applies to
brake pads where the vehicle manufacturers buy them in anyway - anything
from the TRW/Remsa/Roadhouse product lines will be pretty good as they
are OE suppliers to a very large nummber of vehicle manufacturers.

The best recommendation I can give them is that we fit at least one set
of brake pads a day at work, and have never had problems or customer
complaints (as opposed to el-cheapo pads which generate complaints like
crazy).


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