- May 17, 2008
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...And it seems to only come from the passenger back side. I changed all my brakes about 6 months ago (which was a HUGE pain in the ass... Thanks Mazda) and for maybe the past 5.9 months, have been dealing with the squealing noise. I figure it's just the pads breaking in a bit and it would go away. Well obviously it hasn't and it's getting worse now that it's starting to get a little colder out.
I've been hesitating to take the pads off again because it was the most annoying brake change I've ever done. Anybody who's done mazda or ford brakes in the past 10 years probably know the annoying brake and caliper design that's in place on this car. I needed like 5 hands to do this, luckily my dad and his buddy helped. Now, it's just me and my useless g/f to try and do any work on the car. I really don't want to pay Midas or some derp at a body shop to take my wheel off and tell me what I probably already know; that my caliper is frozen in some form and it needs lubing, and oh btw you now need new rotors because you facked them all up.
Is there anything I can do here with out taking the pads out? Honestly, don't really care a ton about uneven rotor wear, etc, I just want this annoying noise to stop. Planned on doing a full rotor/pad replacement next summer once I'm at 100k miles.
I've been hesitating to take the pads off again because it was the most annoying brake change I've ever done. Anybody who's done mazda or ford brakes in the past 10 years probably know the annoying brake and caliper design that's in place on this car. I needed like 5 hands to do this, luckily my dad and his buddy helped. Now, it's just me and my useless g/f to try and do any work on the car. I really don't want to pay Midas or some derp at a body shop to take my wheel off and tell me what I probably already know; that my caliper is frozen in some form and it needs lubing, and oh btw you now need new rotors because you facked them all up.
Is there anything I can do here with out taking the pads out? Honestly, don't really care a ton about uneven rotor wear, etc, I just want this annoying noise to stop. Planned on doing a full rotor/pad replacement next summer once I'm at 100k miles.