Technical Peace perfect peace Squeeky brakes...

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Technical Peace perfect peace Squeeky brakes...

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I have suffered from the dreaded brake squeek from day one and the local dealer has had a look at them 3 times and the last time they tried to charge me for the privlage using "the car has more than 10k on the clock" at which point i jumped up and down and used the I hadn't authorised the work you was going to look at it as its a known fault and its been in twice before for them look at line :bang: and the service manager quickly agreed to waive the cost..... ((nothing like a calm boring monotonus tone of voice rather than a mr shouty f'ing and jeffing they dont know what to make of it;) ))Anyhow it remained quiet for a few months (since April) and over the past 2 or three months its been getting progressively worse so i have just completed a spot of DIY....

What they failed to tell me when i picked the car up is that someone had chamfered the edges of the pads a good 15mm on 3 edges and they had blathered the backs of the pads with what looked like silicon sealent then cheap copper slip (the fact it was hard makes me think it was cheap copperslip) so i cleaned everything Kim and Aggie style and regreased the back of the pads with Real Coppa Slip (the tins probably 20 years old((thanks grandad))) so fingers crossed for a quieter life (y)

Oh and thanks to Helcat for his replacing discs guide (not on a gp but the same idea (had Ford's before my gp so couldn't work out what to do with the 7mm alan key:confused:)


And on another note does the active have teh pad wair indicator activated as i didnt see that light come on when i had the dash software fault and out of curiosity does it work by an earth return being only one wire? (just curious) and does that need to be reset by a dealer when new pads are fitted or is it self reseting when the new pads are fitted :confused:

thanks
 
God the squeaky brakes are driving me mad!!! Had my new Grande for nearly 2 weeks and I had literally lost my temper with the dealer about it and they have agreed to look at it, also had trouble with the airbag light coming on, which has just been fixed. Not a great start for me, although bar the airbag light that came on, and the squeaky mouse brakes its a great car. Keith
 
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God the squeaky brakes are driving me mad!!! Had my new Grande for nearly 2 weeks and I had literally lost my temper with the dealer about it and they have agreed to look at it, also had trouble with the airbag light coming on, which has just been fixed. Not a great start for me, although bar the airbag light that came on, and the squeaky mouse brakes its a great car. Keith

Know problems.....read here:rolleyes:

https://www.fiatforum.com/grande-punto-technical/89495-faults-problems.html
 
Had mine fixed by the dealer in May and now after 11000 miles worse than ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
God the squeaky brakes are driving me mad!!! Had my new Grande for nearly 2 weeks and I had literally lost my temper with the dealer about it and they have agreed to look at it, also had trouble with the airbag light coming on, which has just been fixed. Not a great start for me, although bar the airbag light that came on, and the squeaky mouse brakes its a great car. Keith

Welcome to Fiat (Forum)!

:p
 
well my back brakes don't squeel anymore since they "fit" something... dampner kit or something... i.e. piece of rubber.

But my brakes squeeked a lil bit today on the front... so i'm "hoping" thats just the dust!!!!!
 
Had my Marea 6 years, brakes have squealed for at least 4 of those years. Garage told me to be more assertive when I brake !!:confused:
 
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