Hello again all!
Three weeks ago I had four new lots of disc brakes & pads fitted to my R-Reg 1.8 Vectra (ABS).
Last week, after leaving my car stationary for five days while on holiday, I noticed that the rear brakes squeeked. On any other car with brakes like this I imagine that one would just put on the hand brake for a bit until it goes away. I think my veccy has some kind of parking struts or something similar (It's a manual gearbox) as when I had the old brakes I put the handbrake on at really low speed and it made a massive thud.
Because of that I don't want to repeat it again with new brakes (what was the thud anyway?). One my way home just now after I got so pissed off with the noise that I went along slowly in 1st geat with one foot on the brakes and one foot on the accelerator(!) hoping that if there was any dust build-up it would just scrape off and stop squeeking, but it's still doing it now which made parking in my cul-de-sac at this time of night a rather time consuming and embarrasing experience.
It's a high pitch squeek and only happens when the car has slowed down below 5 or 10mph while the brake is applied. Nothing is heard at higher speeds.
Do you have any suggestions about how I can stop this annoying squeek?
--Nick.