Squeaky brakes and more stone chips!

[Tacklebury]

Anyone else suffering from the worlds noisiest brakes when drawing to a stop? Only happens at sub 5 mph as I'm either slowing of retarding a roll down hill. Starting to do my head in now. Tried bedding them in, high speed stops and the like but no good. Really can't be arsed to take the pads off and copper slip them. Any suggestions?

Also, more stone chips, I think I've got about 6-8 now, some small, some larger, at this rate I'll be running out of touch up paint!

Rant over.

Love you all. X

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[wildcatgoal]

Better get used to the stone chips. Ford put a half a layer of "millennial ninny nanny softy" paint on these cars and are proud of it.

 

[Actual]

Shadow Black, 13K miles and I have just one stone chip.

Lots of black alloy touch ups though

 

[V8_MOTOR]

Depends on the roads you drive on and how closely you follow the car in front. If they are country roads and one tail gates. RIP front end.

City driving. No worries.

That's been my experience anyway.

 

[hinch]

ppf

 

[Centurion07]

If you've tried "out-braking" the noise then the only thing left is removal and re-greasing.

As for stone chips, I'm on 17.5K and have less than 5 (that I've noticed) 2 of which are above the PPF anyway but since you seem to be suffering, PPF should definitely be your next mod.

 

[Leeroy]

My back brakes have squealed for a while now (done 6k miles) - pretty fecking annoying, like you say worse when coming to a halt so not good in a line of traffic. I've never tracked the car either. Suspect this is to do with shoddy/cheap calliper design:shrug: Suspect the only solution is to remove and copper slip:doh:

I've also noticed loads of chips on mine, driving over winter on mostly fast rural roads probably the cause. I also think the paint is shite and very prone to swirls/scratches

 

[Jimboy2]

Yeah my brakes squeak too. Sounds like it's only the drivers front doing it.

 

[Kristian87]

Suffered squeaky brakes last year, drove me mad - it was VERY noticeable. Got Modurstang to give em a good ol clean when I went in for my service.

 

[slowhand99]

Brakes squeak like bu99ery when any dust gets in them. I ran over some sandy gritty ballasty crap down a country lane and they squeaked like mad, not just under braking. Clearances are a bit tight in there I think.

 

[bobpies]

squeaky brakes here too - tried a few 60 - 0 hard brakes to see if i could resolve it - but no dice.

Seems they only squeak until they warm up though. so for maybe 10 minutes

 

[Leeroy]

So, I stripped down my back brakes yesterday. Think i may have solved the mystery of squeaky brakes:





Really surprised at the amount of rust:eyebulge: I guess this could be a result of the long journey across the pond and time sitting at the docks without being driven? I'm always careful when washing to not overly soak the wheels and it doesn't get driven too hard ;)

A wire brush, emery cloth and copper grease and all should be well now. Never had to touch any of my previous new car brakes though....

 

[hinch]

pictures so much easier to see on here than on your phone they look like pads off a 10 year old car :( that amount of corrosion on the lobes wonder how long your car sat near the sea for before it arrived oO

 

[GR11M]

My brakes are fine, lots of stone chips though :(

 

[Nookie]

Hell... those pads are more corroded than the Titanic.

How old is the car... that looks abnormal to me?

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