What causes brake squeaking?
Your car’s ability to stop is at the forefront of its safety equation. Proper maintenance of the car’s braking system is crucial to keeping your vehicle safe. Failure to maintain a safe vehicle can put yourself and others at risk.CausesBrakes use a cast-iron disk squeezed between two brake pads lined with friction material. Under certain conditions, the caliper the brakes are mounted in, the pads and the disk can start to vibrate. These vibrations cause the squeaking that you hear.Normal NoisesBrake pad noises heard first thing in the morning are typically the result of the pads warming up and driving off the moisture that has built up overnight. The noise you hear is the pads sweeping a thin rust film that has formed on the iron disks.Abnormal NoisesMost current brake pads are manufactured with a small finger of spring steel inside them. When the pad is near its wear limit, this spring steel will scrape on the disks. This noise is usually very loud and obvious. Think nails on the blac
