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My sister has a Nissan Tiida 2007 ( small car for you blokes overseas) and is plagued by squealing brakes ( from new) to the point wher the car is an embarrassment. Attempts to cure by Dealers failed, brake specialists failed after new discs/pads. Altogether $1,000,s spent on a car 2 years old. I remember being told that putting a thin layer of silicon adhesive between the pad and caliper can help. Anyone heard of this or can offer some other solution Cheers John

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John
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I'm good at fixing this on a motorcycle so for what it's worth...

Take the pads out and clean the backs of them throughly. Degrease them if needed and then coat the backs of them with Bendix disk brake quiet. Don't reassemble them yet. Put them in a 200 degree oven for 5~10 minutes then turn the oven off and let them cool slowly in the oven. When they are cold after baking on the compound, reassemble as normal.

If these are single piston calipers or dual piston with both pistons on one side then you will need to clean the sliding surfaces then apply a very light coat of hi-temp grease only to the sliding surfaces. I'm not know these calipers so there might be some special way they slide...

In really tough cases you can fill the hollow of the caliper piston with RTV silicone sealer and then let it cure before reassembling.

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Tony W

Much obliged Tony, I,ll see if I can get some of the Bendix stuff and fall back to silicon as a last resort Cheers John

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John

not adhesive, but silicone based grease made for brakes. There are other products too. You can also spray the rotors with squeak eliminating (hah) spray.

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Jan Andersson

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