CARS.COM — If you’re lucky, the squealing or squeaking noise that your brakes make when you first drive your car in the morning, particularly after rain or snow, is just surface rust being scraped off ...
Dear Tom, Every time I hit the brake pedal, my brakes make this awful high-pitched squeal. When I stop at a light I get stares from people. It’s embarrassing! I just had the brakes done last month, so ...
Car owners continuously run into issues while using their vehicles. While some problems are tolerable, others border on irritating and not only for the driver. One such issue is squeaky brakes. How ...
Dear Bob: I have a 1994 Mercury Marquis. I had the brakes replaced about a year ago, and they have squealed ever since. I talked to the installer about it six months ago, and they said it took time ...
Squealing brakes cost auto manufacturers several hundred million dollars a year in warranty repairs and are among consumers' top 20 vehicle complaints – even in luxury cars. Now, acoustics researchers ...
ST. GEORGE, Utah, Sept. 19, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- What does it mean when you hear squealing brakes every time you stop? A HelloNation article featuring David Ortez of St George Auto Repair gives ...
What noise should a Porsche make? If it's under hard acceleration, you'd probably expect the roar of a flat-six, but at lower speeds your six-figure sports car might be making sounds more like a ...
Question: In your column about breaking in brake pads, you said that the pads need to be broken in so that they match the “grooves and ridges from the previous, say, 30,000 miles of stopping.” That ...
ATTENTION PORSCHE OWNERS—how dare you imagine for even a moment the precision engineering of a Porsche product was imperfect. Your complaints about brake squeal are invalid. You should know brake ...
Analyses of squealing disk brakes generally show main frequencies from 1 to 10 kHz. On a test stand holograms exposed by time average and double-pulse techniques are recorded from various types of ...