My brakes are seriously squeeky. In the mornings when it's cold and I first drive away it's really noisy, but I find as I drive more the noise goes away and you can't really hear it, but it's still there slightly. The brakes work fine, I mean I've had to stop suddenly a few times and they're great.. just bloody noisy!!

I went to a mechanic to have a look and he said m front pads have about 80% left. Someone said to me that it is my rear brakes squeeking, but the mechanic said it's the front.. he said the back brakes (drum) will never squeek.

It sounds like a bus coming to a stop, that kinda squeek. It's so embarrassing coming up to a round about lol


Anyway if I have to replace my front pads and discs, can you guys make some recommendations as to what brands to consider? They want too much money here so I need to buy them off eBay or something. He said 3 hours x $88 per hour if I bring in my own stuff is the only price I'll pay. Oh and I can't afford Brembo's so don't even suggest top brands, just something good enough to last.. I'm not racing this thing lol

Holla!

WOW mechanics over there really take thier sweet time when working on cars 3 hrs is a true ass raping. 1hr at most just for pads, but if you want a decent set of pads cheap just get the ac-delco OEM replacements. You should be able to find them over there.

considering an oil change to them takes 2.5 hours, yeah..

buy a hanes manual and do it yourself...

If theres 80% left, I would turn up the radio and forget about the pads for now.

Its very likely that the pads are just noisy(cheap pads maybe), but will stop just fine for the life of them.

found a midas and decided to go in and ask their opinion..

first people to actually take me seriously. They say sure NP lets go for a ride, so one mechanic who ends up being a brake expert for the past 13 years says "definately the back brakes.."

We go back, he offers to take my drums apart for free to see what the problem is and then I can decide what I want to do.. fine, lets do it..

Takes of one side, just a lot of dust in the drum, bearings look good, could use some work tho, but def. not the squeek.

Go to other side... hmm.. The drum wont come off, should just slip off.. after some banging and shit it comes off.. the seal that is supposed to be attached to the one side came off and was eating away at the other side.. basically that squeeking was the metal being eaten away everytime I pressed the brakes. It was really bad, like the bolt heads were half chewed off. He said it's lucky I came in now to do this because potentially if it ate all the way thru it could have knocked my wheel off.

Anyway the bearings were in good condition too but whoever serviced them last did a SHIT ASS JOB because he had to remachine some shit inside there to have the bearing sit right and stuff.. anyway long story short it took him 3 hours and a lot of labour, and they only charged me 1 hour labour for the entire job ($88 total). He showed me how to keep the brake dust out by washing my rims which were filthy from the brake dust, which also added to the squeek He cleaned everythign inside and put new grease in and it looks like new after he's done...

So I got a great deal and no more squeek. The pads are shit, no doubt, so the last owner was a moron.

Go Midas! Who knew they'd be the cheapest and most honest.