Thread: When did your brakes need to be replaced?
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Old Sep 9, 2009 | 01:18 PM
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Default Re: When did your brakes need to be replaced?
Originally Posted by blackcrossfire07
By the way, I have the same squeal in the front left tire. I hear it mostly when I am turning at low speeds. Don't know what it is and I have given up on trying to find out. I mentioned it to the dealer and they said my brakes are fine and bearings are ok. I asked them to do my brakes and they wouldn't touch them. I gave them my 100% permission to do the job. I figure they would have wanted to make money and change them... so they must really not be bad for them to be honest and tell me it wasn't needed.

Everyone here has the same nosie. I have given up on trying to find the cause. I don't care about it and I am not going to worry about it unless it gets worse. I guess your car is bound to make some noise with all those metal moving parts!
The simple fact is that the pads are touching all the time as there is no positive pressure to move them away from the rotor after the brake pressure is released, wear to the pad and rotor due to this is virtually non-existent. Drum brakes use springs to maintain a gap between drum and shoe.
Sticky cylinders or pads that are tight in their mountings will cause noise and wear, seemingly inspection has ruled this out in your case. This condition is obvious after some time due to extra wear on one pad or one set of pads.
Warped rotors push the pads away by the amount of the warp, but you hear intermittent hisses as the pad touches the high spot on the rotor.
You hear the left side because that is the side you sit, your passenger will say that their side is making a noise.
 
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