Cheap Brake Pads = Squeaky brakes?

[SlippinJoe]

I replaced my front brake pads on my 99 GT with the cheapest brake pads I could get Bad on my part I know, but I just wanted to slap something in there before the old pads started to chew up my rotors. But since I replaced them they squeak terribly. Is this just common with shitty pads or is there a trick that I dont know about to make them not squeak?

thanks

[taank]

turn your rotors

[gutlas5]

cheap pads along with pad slappin will cause all sorts of squeekin

[Outlaw86'd]

why would you get the cheapest ones.. the mids are usually only like $10 more when ive bought them..even those are shit but at least they're not the worst

[SlippinJoe]

cheap pads along with pad slappin will cause all sorts of squeekin

whats pad slappin? And it only squeaks once I get going around ten miles an hour or so, until a complete stop. So now I am that Asshole that pulls up next to you at the stoplights and makes you cringe because it is so annoying.

why would you get the cheapest ones.. the mids are usually only like $10 more when ive bought them..even those are shit but at least they're not the worst

In the case of a 99 GT with NAPA it was 25 dollars or 65 dollars, take your pick for the cheap ones.

[gutlas5]

pad slapping is where you just change the pads and dont "turn" or machine the rotor surface.

[MisterCMK]

I don't turn rotors unless they are warped or I get pedal vibration and haven't had a problem with pads making noise

[SlippinJoe]

pad slapping is where you just change the pads and dont "turn" or machine the rotor surface.

so just getting the rotors turned should solve this problem? I knew I should have had them turned, I was just trying to do it quickly.

[ScotWithOne_t]

Did you at least sand the glaze off the rotor? Are the pads shimmed? unshimed pads can squeak. There is also some antisqueak conpund you can put between the pad and caliper piston to help with squeaking. I don't think it matters how expensive a pad is for it to squeak. I have Willwood pads on mine and they squeak like crazy with light pedal pressure.

[SlippinJoe]

Did you at least sand the glaze off the rotor? Are the pads shimmed? unshimed pads can squeak. There is also some antisqueak conpund you can put between the pad and caliper piston to help with squeaking. I don't think it matters how expensive a pad is for it to squeak. I have Willwood pads on mine and they squeak like crazy with light pedal pressure.

I dont know anything about shims, I have only done brakes on some fox body stangs and a 99 cavalier. where do shims go?

I knew I should have just brought it into a mechanic, but I figured I could handle doing them.

[ScotWithOne_t]

I dont know anything about shims, I have only done brakes on some fox body stangs and a 99 cavalier. where do shims go?

I knew I should have just brought it into a mechanic, but I figured I could handle doing them.

The shims are usually attached to the back of the pad. Go buy some of that anti-squeak compound and put it on the back of the pad. it's kinda messy, so I don't use it...but I don't really care if my breaks squeak any more.

[MisterCMK]

You can handle it, don't take it to a mechanic. Just pick up some anti-squeak stuff from the parts store and apply it to the back of brake pads

[Ford Fan]

Don't use the anti-squeak stuff. Buy a product called "Brake Caliper Synthetic Grease" part # SL 3301. Put a thin film on the pad anywhere there's metal to metal contact, including the butterfly clip that goes into the caliper, the abutment clips, the ends of the pads that ride in the caliper bracket where the pad slides, etc.

Those pads are shimmed, slotted, and chamfered if the OEM did it from the factory. Not servicing the rotors is just asking for squeaks but this just might take care of it. It took care of the squeak on my wife's neon.

[Turbo302]

Get them good and Hot!! A couple heavy stops from 65 mph or so will get them bedded faster (just before lockup/abs activation).

Working with many Road Race teams, they would never turn a perfectly straight rotor as it would remove the "hard coat" that developed from the previous heat cycles.

A turned/scuffed rotor will bed the pads much faster, as it is much more abrasive and heat up faster, but giving the brakes a bunch of heated stops, and it should bedd them in.

Tim

[OrangeCrush 86]

Get them good and Hot!! A couple heavy stops from 65 mph or so will get them bedded faster (just before lockup/abs activation).

Working with many Road Race teams, they would never turn a perfectly straight rotor as it would remove the "hard coat" that developed from the previous heat cycles.

A turned/scuffed rotor will bed the pads much faster, as it is much more abrasive and heat up faster, but giving the brakes a bunch of heated stops, and it should bedd them in.

Tim

Agreed. You need to try to bed them first. Do a few stops from 65 to 0 in succession.