Squealing brakes
10-03-2013, 04:34 AM
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I wish I read this earlier, coulda done all this while I was changing my oil.
All good my man, same exact conditions for me.
I'll give this a shot today. If no dice, i'll lube the back of the pads and scuff everything, rebed.
Mine squeak too! It's annoying and down right embarrassing on occasion. iDrive tells me I have 9000 miles up front and 13000 miles in the rear before replacing. There is a slight lip on the outside edge of the rotors though. I'm wondering if this is the culprit or not. Do they make any spray for this? My apologies if it seems like I hijacked this thread.
I installed new Hawk HPS pads 2.5 years ago. About 1.5 months ago they started squealing at low speeds. (Usually stop and go parking lot speeds). There's still a lot of meat on the pads so all I did was to re-bed them again. Go 40 mph (or as fast as you safely can on the street), then slow hard to 10 mph without stopping and keep doing that until the squealing is gone. It's been about 3 weeks now and still no squeal.
10-03-2013, 07:35 AM
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My Ride: E60 530i
Model Year: 2004
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Rear Brake Squeak
I have the on going squeak even before the warranty expired. When I applied brake at different speed, no squeak. However, after released the brake pedal, rear brake squeal when moving at low speed. Dealer looked into the rear brake and couldn't find anything wrong. I even changed all 4 brakes to Hawk brake pads, new BMW rotors (all 4), and tons of anti-squeaking paste. Still no luck .... I just live with it for now.
The squeak is very noticeable in summer hot day. Winter days, not that noticeable.
The squeak is very noticeable in summer hot day. Winter days, not that noticeable.
10-03-2013, 10:41 AM
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Low dust pads like the Hawk pads are actually louder than stock. Also, when I installed mine the first time, I did use a lot of anti-squeak stuff. I guess over time the pads somehow just settled. My guess is the re-bedding cycles this time continuously had more heat on the anti-squeak stuff enough to eventually re-soften it somehow and causing them and the pads to re-bed at a quieter position where normal intermittent braking wouldn't produce so much heat for so long. Just a guess, but it worked for me. 
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