Post by WDB on Jun 26, 2017 20:04:46 GMT
My BMW squeaks. Not much, but enough to penetrate the cabin with the frameless windows closed and to spoil the lounge-lizard self-indulgence of driving along with them all open. I think it's the rear offside brake, because applying the brakes appears to stop the squeak, sometimes for a little while after releasing too.
The obvious answer ought to be that there's a little piece of debris, or a feather of loose pad material, between pad and disc. But braking hard doesn't shift it. What do you think? Am I not braking hard enough to engage the rear brakes much? (Braking that hard does seem rather, erm, ungentlemanly.) Perhaps I'm just going the wrong way and ought to try stopping dead from maximum in reverse.
If all that doesn't help, is there anything simple and non-invasive I can do to check out the mechanism?
The obvious answer ought to be that there's a little piece of debris, or a feather of loose pad material, between pad and disc. But braking hard doesn't shift it. What do you think? Am I not braking hard enough to engage the rear brakes much? (Braking that hard does seem rather, erm, ungentlemanly.) Perhaps I'm just going the wrong way and ought to try stopping dead from maximum in reverse.
If all that doesn't help, is there anything simple and non-invasive I can do to check out the mechanism?
