That's what I hear driving along! Front brakes on my 275 squeak when rolling at low speed. The brakes aren't even applied. Seems to happen most often when I have steering lock on, and is worse with a bit of heat in the brakes. Brakes don't feel like they are binding but I haven't bothered jacking the car up. This isn't normal brake squeal which happens when brakes applied sometimes (that doesn't bother me). The car has grooved discs on it which I believe is not standard spec for 275 Cup S. Dunno if that makes any odds? I noticed a tiny bit of squeal when (more like a squeak squeak!) when cornering after driving the car hard for a while when I first got the car. Now it seems to do it just from cruising on motorway for a while. Any ideas? Case of TADTS?
I think all cups come with grooves discs from factory don’t they? Very strange how it’s squeaking without applying any brake pressure, how far gone are the pads and discs? The best thing to do is jack the car up and have a closer inspection, impossible to say, could even be a wheel bearing. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
early stages of piston sticking, nothing to worry about immediately just means piston not seating that last few microns back into caliper, at some distant point will need caliper refresh. does it more when pads are hot and tolerance is tighter
Thanks Bob. I had thought it was something along those lines. It's a 16 plate on around 11k and there's loads of life left in the pads and discs.
It's definitely beneficial to keep on top of maintenance and cleaning of the Brembo calipers, a simple strip down of pads, clean then reassemble does then a world of good and would solve a lot of the noise issues
Bob, funnily enough that's the other tip you gave me last year! Sent from my ONEPLUS A5010 using Tapatalk
....easy one to miss that one is, then folk wonder why cabins filling up with water, then they need some kind of breathing apparatus, then that fails and they drown and folk ask why he drowned and they say he neglected to clean his scuttle drains
This seems to be fixed now. I took the car to Renault on Monday. Ironically there was no noise from the brakes on the way there, and they did not find anything wrong with the front brakes. They did say the rears were binding and cleaned them up. I think a good old Italian tune up fixed the issue. I did 500 miles hooning around Wales last week and I hadn't heard the squeaking since. I have been guilty of not using the car properly over the last year as I've been busy with work and family life. Lots of town driving so maybe the brakes just needed a work out. I'm sure the noise was coming from the front brakes and this hasn't been the rears all along! I'm going to park the car in gear from now on. Something I used to do with a 172 Cup and 182 as the rears always binded on the hand brake on them. I hadn't noticed the issue on the Megane. Sent from my ONEPLUS A5010 using Tapatalk
