Rear brake screaming & HOT
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Rear brake screaming & HOT
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I’m getting pretty frustrated here. Did all the brakes on my 2000 Outback wagon. Replaced all rotors and pads. Fronts seem okay but lots of trouble with the rears. First they dragged to much got super hot, even turned blue. I took all apart, checked & rechecked. Dragging is not so bad now and wheels don’t get hot like they use to, but they squeak constantly while driving and one tends to vibrate every once in a while. I used the anti squeak stuff. Of course I used AZ parts. Today I was going to get the dealer pads and see what happens. They cost 3 times as much but I don’t know what else to do other than perhaps change calipers too. Car only has 65K miles on it. Any ideas, is this common, did I do something wrong? Thanks
I’m getting pretty frustrated here. Did all the brakes on my 2000 Outback wagon. Replaced all rotors and pads. Fronts seem okay but lots of trouble with the rears. First they dragged to much got super hot, even turned blue. I took all apart, checked & rechecked. Dragging is not so bad now and wheels don’t get hot like they use to, but they squeak constantly while driving and one tends to vibrate every once in a while. I used the anti squeak stuff. Of course I used AZ parts. Today I was going to get the dealer pads and see what happens. They cost 3 times as much but I don’t know what else to do other than perhaps change calipers too. Car only has 65K miles on it. Any ideas, is this common, did I do something wrong? Thanks
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Just a thought but maybe the handbrake needs adjustment. You can tell it's draging against the rotor if the rotor are very hard to remove and install. If that's the problem I bellieve you can adjust them but turning a **** that's on the bottomb of the brake assembly and can be seen once the rotors are removed.
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There is not much drag at all now. At first there was but I think there wore enough to get them free. Perhaps cuz they got so hot they got glazed and the squeak now. I had the same problem with a Ford once, only fix was buy dealer pads, problem went away.
If you push on the brake, you aren't trying to accelerate, therefore it's not going to be making crazy noises. I'm not sure where it's adjusted, but I had to have a bunch of stuff done to fix it.
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It's not the e-brake, that doesn't clamp the calipers. It couldn't heat up your whole rotor that bad. The cheap pads you got are probably just a bit too thick.
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Hot Is Hot, the rotor would burn you and was blue, you could not hold your hand on the alloy wheel, that is hot, it stunk to high heavin, okay, that's how hot it was.
Anyway, put in oem pads tonight, they seem to work much better, time will tell. They come with plastic isulators and new stainless clips, I don't think the AZ cheapo's fit right.
The EB was not dragging at all..........
Anyway, put in oem pads tonight, they seem to work much better, time will tell. They come with plastic isulators and new stainless clips, I don't think the AZ cheapo's fit right.
The EB was not dragging at all..........
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