04' Xr6t Premium Brakes Squelling

[boatboy50]

Hey Guys,

Have an 04' XR6T with premium brakes.

The brakes have an annoying soft squel to them every time I lightly touch the brakes coming up to lights or whateva. Once I put more pressure on, the noise goes away.

I'm sure it is just brake pad dust or something, but it drives me crazy!

Is there a spray I can buy or something which will get rid of this?

Regards

Darren

[hard-on]

hey mate dont worry your not the only one that has that problem.

heaps of people are feeling your pain.

just check out some old threads that are posted about premo brakes for advice.

[shockF6]

My Phoon did this right up until my FPV track day. after 11 quick laps of sandown I haven't had any brake squeel since (2.5 months now).

my advice would be to punish your brakes for about 1/2 hour then let them cool down slowly (dont use the hand brake after there hot) and the squeel SHOULD go away.

[ZAP]

it is a common problem with most premo's squeeling.

I gave up with Ford trying to fix it and got some Bendix MEtal Kings fitted. IT stopped the squeel, but munched the disks.

There are not many solutions, washing the disks with a high pressure hose will give you a few days of silence

[alanb007]

Same problem with mine. Ford changed the pads just before 15,000km with the "new" type of pad.

The squeal went away for about 5,000km and has been with me since.

I have now got up to 42,000km and I have given up bothering about it.

As mentioned earlier in the thread, its only there under light braking and goes away with heavy application of the brakes.

So, for some fun, I now deliberately make them squeal when I see someone waiting at the lights with their window open.

ha ha ha ha

Evil I know, but if I can't get rid of it, I might as well share it!

Alanb

[Paradoxx]

Go some slotted discs next time

[bangm001]

Yep, same problemo with the Phoon.

Went back to ford about it (as well as other things) TWICE. They said it was "normal and just wearing in" the first time, and the second time after me complaining like hell, they "deglazed" the discs (in other words, they got the apprentice to have a pull over the FPV logos on the calipers and did nothing). Have had this since new, and now done over 10K. Ford will hear about it again soon and I will be demanding new pads, and discs to be machined-, but am thiking why should I have less useage out of mt discs because ford cant make brakes that dont squeal- I should get new discs.

It is just a ford after all..

[boatboy50]

Thanks All,

The discs are slotted or vented or whatever it is called.

Surely there must be some spray out there which we can spray on once a week or something to stop the noise?

No ideas?

Darren

[Cashie]

Does anyone know what Ford charge for front premium pads?

[bloan]

I also have this problem with the Premiums but most times it doesn't bother me. Having said though I will be changing to QFM pads if they make them for the Premiums. Not so much for the sqeal, more so for the brake dust that is generated!