Rear brakes squealing! Arrrghhhhh

[Johnny5]

Agreed Tomcat, thats a pretty big swerve from the original thread lol

[bigdavemaud]

my bloody rear pads have just been squeeling did my head in to changed them and it still squeeld after degreasing and anit squeel wasnt impressed stripped em back out and found the spring metal held in by the pins was catching the disc opend it out abit and they stopped yey
now the bloody front have started now

[Johnny5]

It annoys me to the bone, but it must REALLY annoy my neighbours lol...... Only squeals at low speed from say 5mph to 0mph.... Im gonna get some anti-squeal shims from simon this week... Hopefully that will cure it once and for all! hehe

[jka]

Before you spend any real money, it's always worth (once checking the pads have enough thickness not to be changed). Whipping the wheel off, (both sides if nessecary), and spray some good degreaser over both sides of the brake disc, and the pads. I've had this problem on the wife's 806 and my T5, it's caused (mostly) by the person who last fitted brake pads, not copper greasing the parts they should have, (enough lol).

I used some Wurth's degreaser/brake cleaner on both cars, ad so far, touch wood, it's taken away the squeaking..... please, whatever you may think, DON'T use WD-40...

Thank you....had rear squeaking brakes for nearly nine months now. My garage always wanted to charge me a nice sum, saying they had to take brakes off etc etc £££. Squeeeling got really bad recently so followed your advice re degreaser and.... SILENCE.
JKA

[Quicksilver]

Mine had shims fitted when I first changed the rear pads but left them out as the new pads had anti squeal on the back, but the new pads squealed, so put the shims back(with the arrow in direction of wheel rotation) and they still squealed, and still do on the second set of pads and discs.

So I'm going to try the de-greaser thing and hope.