Squealing brake pads

[DJR 7]

Can anyone suggest brake pads that don't squeak? Looking for fast road use on a Sp6

[aide]

Hi Darren, I used these shims and gave them good clean and it stopped the squeal.
Prob worth doing that first?

[DJR 7]

Interesting, not seen these before, I'll order and try ....... Drives me crazy listening to the squeal!
How's your neck and back now?

[ukkid35]

Works great on the front, but less effective on the back because the discs are so badly worn (had to chamfer the pads as well).

[aide]

Mine were squealing last year - esp in slow moving traffic - so I fitted the shims, gave it a good clean and it sorted it out.
Neck is good - 90% ok I'd say - just have some pysio lined up for the next two months or so and I should be right as rain

[DJR 7]

Great news Aide, are you back on the road? ....... Gearbox wise

[aide]

not just yet, gearbox is still getting rebuilt and I'm taking care of a couple of small jobs while it's all stripped down, but have missed it all summer!

[pmessling]

Good slap of copper grease on the backs of the pad, plus the shims should sort them out. Mine used to be bad, but since doing my front end rebuild and having the brakes off, putting them back they have been squeak free.

[esso]

What pads are you using? I had Mintex in mine,they squealed like a pig,they were too hard for road use and warped my front discs,EBC red stuff are good enough for fast road use.

[scotty_d]

esso said:

What pads are you using? I had Mintex in mine,they squealed like a pig,they were too hard for road use and warped my front discs,EBC red stuff are good enough for fast road use.

They are brain damage the mintex ones both my cars run them. Great stopping power for the cost but the squeal is driving me mental!!!!!

[Tanguero]

Mintex pads have always been fine for me on road use. Shims on the back stop the squealing which they are somewhat prone to.

There is no way that a standard road pad will cause a disk to warp unless there is a calliper/disk problem already.

[DJR 7]

esso said:

What pads are you using? I had Mintex in mine,they squealed like a pig,they were too hard for road use and warped my front discs,EBC red stuff are good enough for fast road use.

I also run on Mintex but can't stand the noise any longer! Car is in today having red stuff fitted along with the sticky shimms Aide suggested ....... Picking it up later so I'll let you know how it goes
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Edited by DJR 7 on Thursday 23 August 13:31

[DJR 7]

Wow! Red stuff sure do stop!! My old pads weren't particularly worn but I couldn't stand the noise.
Fitted red stuff today and some new shims, now have silent braking but first and foremost a lovely solid brake pedal with sharp response, gonna bed them in and see how good they really are but first impressions are indeed impressive
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[esso]

DJR 7 said:

Wow! Red stuff sure do stop!! My old pads weren't particularly worn but I couldn't stand the noise.
Fitted red stuff today and some new shims, now have silent braking but first and foremost a lovely solid brake pedal with sharp response, gonna bed them in and see how good they really are but first impressions are indeed impressive
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Mine did a great job when i was ragging the Cerb around Bruntingthorpe on the Asda charity day a couple of weeks ago!

[esso]

Tanguero said:

Mintex pads have always been fine for me on road use. Shims on the back stop the squealing which they are somewhat prone to.

There is no way that a standard road pad will cause a disk to warp unless there is a calliper/disk problem already.

When i had the Mintex pads fitted the front discs were skimmed,they were fine to start with but within a 1000 miles the discs were warped again and there was no way i could stop the squeal.In the end i fitted new discs and EBC redstuff and i have not had an issue since.

[Tanguero]

If the disks were skimmed in the first place then that was done because they were already warped. The stresses are still there in the disk despite the skimming. Skimmed disks will continue to warp regardless of what you do to them - skimming them doesn't cure anything it just hides the symptoms.

I really don't think that you can blame pads that many thousands of people have used on a range of cars without any issue for wrecking already knackered disks. The noise is one thing but they are otherwise excellent pads and have the best cold performance of any pad that I have been able to try on the Cerbera.

[DJR 7]

My ramblings are purely based on my own experience. The Mintex do certainly stop but they really do squeal.
Having fitted the red stuff they were immediately noticeably better under braking and so far no squealing ........ I don't wish to start an argument but I do believe that we all strive for the same goal? I've listened to others opinions on Ph and drawn my own conclusions ..... Thanks to those that recommended the red stuff and the adhesive shims, they've worked for me.
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[scotty_d]

Was it just your rears that squeal or fronts as well?

[DJR 7]

scotty_d said:

Was it just your rears that squeal or fronts as well?

Both front and rear but fronts more so.
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[scotty_d]

It is just my rears that are doing it i think some people silicon the rear pad to the piston and this can stop the squeal.