Squeeky brakes

[television]

Fitted the Green pads and even after giving the backs of the pads a heavy coating of Copper grease, they have started to squeal .....Never again !!!!

I have brake squeal and thats why I always stick to the Manufacturer's pads...this was a bad move.

Give them a chance to bed, I have them on my SL and V70R it is important to grease the piston face and the shim as well.

On my SL they squeaked for about 500 miles and never after that

 

[vijilants]

OK...will give them some time and see how it goes. Ive done about 250 miles on them so far. No shims on the W202.

I just hate squeal !!!!

 

[television]

OK...will give them some time and see how it goes. Ive done about 250 miles on them so far. No shims on the W202.

I just hate squeal !!!!

Though you and I have the same ATE brakes on my V70R and SL, MB say grease the piston and not the pad,,Volvo say do the pad and shim if fitted

 

[vijilants]

Yep....the caliper is ATE. It has a single piston.

I put plenty of copper grease on the back of the pads so would assume that it would land up on the piston as soon as i slid the pads in or the piston contacted the rear of the pad.

 

[vijilants]

Fitted the Green pads and even after giving the backs of the pads a heavy coating of Copper grease, they have started to squeal .....Never again !!!!

I have brake squeal and thats why I always stick to the Manufacturer's pads...this was a bad move.

My brakes are still squealing with the EBC pads !!!! Does anyone have a practical solution to this as I don't really want to rip them out and go back to MB pads because they do on dirty the wheels so badly. However the brake squeal on stopping is getting to be really irritating.

 

[Ultymate]

OK...will give them some time and see how it goes. Ive done about 250 miles on them so far. No shims on the W202.

I just hate squeal !!!!

The 202 should have ant-squeal-shims somebody must have binned them. My 202 squeals a fair bit when doing a lot of local stop start stuff but once the brakes get a good work out on the motorway it dissapears for a couple of weeks, I suspect the pads get glazed up. I greased the pistons and shims as usual when fitting the pads so I'll probably try a different make when these wear out. I'm not too bothered just notch the stereo up

 

[Dieselman]

EBC pads do tend to squeal especially on the rear when new but it will go.

Mine were no problem on the front but terrible on the rear even with antisqueal shims fitted. EBC say they have a problem with this on MB and Volvo rears due to the design of the disk.

A dose of copper grease sorted them out completely.

Grease both the back of the pad and the shim.