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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

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Lofty
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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

Hi,

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

Experience tells you......

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Neil Brownlee

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Lofty

Thank you. I will get new discs and pads fitted I think.

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Lofty

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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EMB

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