Brakes Squealing?
Burning Brakes
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From: Chattanooga TN
You must have something else going on. Did you check your rotors when you did the pads or use the grease or lube. If you look up thrends on them very few has had issues after they changed them. I ride with my top off a lot pretty much all the time and they don't squeal at all. When I bought my GS 1 almost 2 years ago the low speed squeal was bad (OEM). Changed the pads and rotors and have not heard a squeal since. My GS had 18K now I'm sitting a little over 24K and have not heard another squeal since I changed them out.
Burning Brakes
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From: Chattanooga TN
True I wanted something that didn't squeal that was somewhat proven and little to no dusting and that's the one I found, especially since I upgraded to chrome wheels. The OEM after riding around the block my silver GS wheels would be almost black. LoL
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You must have something else going on. Did you check your rotors when you did the pads or use the grease or lube. If you look up thrends on them very few has had issues after they changed them. I ride with my top off a lot pretty much all the time and they don't squeal at all. When I bought my GS 1 almost 2 years ago the low speed squeal was bad (OEM). Changed the pads and rotors and have not heard a squeal since. My GS had 18K now I'm sitting a little over 24K and have not heard another squeal since I changed them out.
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YUP.....they don't make rotors like they use to. Just as well to replace then to re-surface. New ones USUALLY don't cost that much, and theres no down time waiting for a shop to turn your old ones. Of course you can get old ones turned, but it usually doesn't take too many hard stops to get them to start wiggling that steering wheel all over again.
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The pads did stop the god awful brake dust though.
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I'm quite impressed with my cars brakes/rotors - at 80k miles and still both original ones with no pulsation on braking.
YUP.....they don't make rotors like they use to. Just as well to replace then to re-surface. New ones USUALLY don't cost that much, and theres no down time waiting for a shop to turn your old ones. Of course you can get old ones turned, but it usually doesn't take too many hard stops to get them to start wiggling that steering wheel all over again.
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Bought a used 2010 GS. 11500 miles . Brakes squealed so bad it was embarrassing to drive. Tried cleaning, sprays, ect with no improvement. New Hawk ceramic brake pads........ no squeal at all, problem solved
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The GS is the LS3 Vette version of a track car and it comes with big brakes and aggressive pads. If you drive it like a track car, the brakes never squeal. If you drive it like the average everyday grocery getter, eventually they'll squeal.
If you want to retain the track pads, do at least 1 really hard stop from ~60 mph every 50-100 miles. Yes, there will more dust, but that's the price you pay to drive a track car on the street.
If you want to retain the track pads, do at least 1 really hard stop from ~60 mph every 50-100 miles. Yes, there will more dust, but that's the price you pay to drive a track car on the street.