Breaks AGAIN!

spider · Post by **spider** » Wed Oct 02, 2002 10:57 pm

Jst liek to ask everyone, has anyone actually managed to get thier noisey breaks FIXED by the dealers yet or do they give up and put up wif the noise!
I had mine apparently done today was ok for about 10 mins driving then the SQUEEKING came on once again!
Any advice?

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Erm · Post by **Erm** » Thu Oct 03, 2002 12:53 am

buy a good CD and put the volume up....

may i recommend WESTWOOD 3

spider · Post by **spider** » Thu Oct 03, 2002 10:52 am

Yeah Cheers Erm! guess i have no other option...

damn breaks!

Julia · Post by **Julia** » Thu Oct 03, 2002 11:18 am

I took my CC to the dealer ages ago to sort this prob and it must have resolved the problem for a day!
You would have heard me at the meet as I was the one with the squeaky brakes!!!
As Erm said buy a good cd and crank it up!

spider · Post by **spider** » Thu Oct 03, 2002 12:52 pm

yup! like me! i didnt even last a day! a couple of minutes literally!
anyway, guess I jst have to deafen myself a lil more

Are all cars like this? im sure I dont hear none of the squeeky stuff on bmws etc etc. or is it jst peugeots?

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anyway music is fine by me!

ladymxenna · Post by **ladymxenna** » Thu Oct 03, 2002 8:13 pm

Ok it is interesting listening to issues re: squeaky brakes. I've have my car since 19th September. After about 300 miles I noticed the brakes squeaking. Now at 500 miles they are still squeaking. I was going to report this as a fault - anything to do with brakes is worrying and the last time I heard squeaking on braking like this was when the brake disk pads had worn down on my last car.

Are people saying this is a issue with these cars?

spider · Post by **spider** » Fri Oct 04, 2002 1:54 am

i certainly fink so i jst cant understand why many other cars dont quite seem to have such a propblem but only peugeots it appears to be.... who knows... prolly peugeot themselves dont, they aint exactly relaible.

Derek · Post by **Derek** » Sat Oct 05, 2002 11:10 pm

my brakes were squealing very embarrassingly at 2k miles. i took it in and they totally stripped down and cleaned the brakes on all 4 wheels.

i was very unhappy and made sure they knew it, that i waited nearly 4 hours when it should have been 2 hours. they forgot to fix the carpet but a monkey can only do one thing at a time.

end story - a miracle

just hitting 10k miles and not a squeak out of the brakes

spider · Post by **spider** » Sun Oct 06, 2002 12:24 am

WOW!!!

Perhaps there IS hope after all? I guess I betta take it back and insist on it like u did Derek.... off we goto dealers....

Thing is I dont seem to have quite an "effect" they jst dont take me seriously enough....

jo · Post by jo » Sun Oct 06, 2002 4:20 pm

I've just discovered this problem on mine too, it's just started happening at 8000 miles. How do I know if my brake pads are worn down?? Is it a case of taking in into a garage and asking??

I know I sound very thick but I don't have a clue about cars!

Cheers
Jo

SNVL · Post by **SNVL** » Mon Oct 07, 2002 3:29 pm

I heard that problem is that the brake pads no longer use asbestos. I think it was banned or something. So the manufacturers used other materials in its place which unfortuantely squeak. So if you replace your break pads with another brand, you should not have a problem. But I have not heard anyone complain about the braking ability of the cars. So I guess whatever substitute was choosen works pretty well where it counts. Can anyone confirm this.

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SNVL

mvoong · Post by **mvoong** » Mon Oct 07, 2002 3:50 pm

If you do have a problem with the pads, this can be easily spotted on the discs. Are the discs worn unevenly or scored and marked? If it is then it's probably the pads worn down and need replacing. Depends how hard you brake though. When I need them replaced I'll be replacing mine with black diamond grooved and drilled discs with a harder compound pad. The braking performance will be greatly increased and there will be no squeeking sound but it does make a lovely sound when braking (you'll have to trust me on this one!)

jo · Post by jo » Mon Oct 07, 2002 4:47 pm

thanks v much Mvoong, will get a male to check this for me!

It might just be a case of sqeaky brakes like u said but I will look into it, im dead worried about things going wrong on my car! They scare me!!

cheers
Jo

Rich · Post by **Rich** » Mon Oct 07, 2002 5:33 pm

Know I'm tempting fate here but I haven't had any problems with sqeeky brakes since I got my car. I think I mentioned some time ago that they must of changed the type of breakpads used. My cay is a Y reg

Rich

Derek · Post by **Derek** » Wed Oct 09, 2002 11:24 pm

i think my reply shows the problem CAN be fixed so time to get your local monkey put in his place

mines were very bad and there hasn't been a squeak in the last 8k miles.