besides the standard brakes being absolulty pants in my opinion mine squeek like hell sometimes unless i brake hard, what causes this???,

i brought some bigger discs drilled and grooved to fit at the weekend, i was going to do pads too but they look brand new, discs dont look TOOO bad they are a few mm worn though.

Do i need to get some new pads, has the jap guy before me brought crap pads?? or shall i just fit disks and then see if they squeek??

 

Also one brake is binding how can i solve this, i think this is front left though so maybe the new discs will solve this??

 

thanks everyone in advance.

Its not the pads or discs mate, you need to put silicon grease on the backs of the pads. It does the same thing as shims. Should do the trick esp if you have standard brakes. Performance brake setups often make more noise though, theres often a tossup between noise, brake dust, hot and cold performance and the different compounds for pads,etc.

so remove the pads and put grease on the back, i dont understand how that not having that would make it squeek?

Usually copperslip rather than silicon grease, but as long as it has a very high melting point it should be ok. You should also have shims down the back of the pads too.

 

As for binding brakes it's usually down to a sticky piston, a bit of exercise may cure that, or a strip down will be required.

so remove the pads and put grease on the back, i dont understand how that not having that would make it squeek?

 

I've oftern wondered about that but I think it's more to do with the pads 'chattering' at a very high frequency, having the grease on the back must damp that chatter/vibration down.

cool ill clean everything up when i change disks, hopefully its not too much of a pain.