How to tell when you need new brakes?

They'll make a nasty metallic screech, ideally though you'd pull a wheel off and check the pad thickness.

Brakes squeel when they aren't done right, or when people use cheap metallic pads. When they're worn out, use some decent pads like PBR, make sure you install the shimms and use anti squeel compound. Properly done, 240 brakes are silent.

I must admit that I've never seen PBR pads. PBR is an Australian manufacturer of calipers, master cylinders, etc., but I've never seen it as a brand of pad.

Having had experience with a range of brands of brake pads, I've moved to using EBC "greenstuff" pads. These are the only decent pads I've found so far that meet the original friction factor specification for Volvo 2-series. I don't intend to ever fit Bendix pads to anything ever again - squeaking and making nasty grinding noises appears to be normal for their pads these days, and that applies to brand new pads on brand new discs in good working order...

Volvo's need original brakediscs and pads, otherwise they squeak. ! sorry

robert v70

"Stuart" schreef in bericht news: snipped-for-privacy@uni-berlin.de...

At that point you need a new mechanic, too.

This simply isn't so.

Well I have an S70 T5 with non original brake pads all round (APEC at the rear, can't remember at the front) and they don't squeak squeal or play up in any way... and as the APEC rears were only £13 a set (about $20) I'm not about to complain!

All you need to do is make sure ou use a good anti squeal compond on the back of the pad and fit new antisqueal shims.

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