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
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)
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
thanks
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
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)
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
thanks