Squeaky brakes

[Emp]

Think it's the fronts. Picked up a new Xpower last week. Feature or a fault?

Will they bed in?

 

[JonnyG]

They need some hard braking every so often to really get the pads biting onto the discs (both front and rear). There's plenty of posts about this. Also the rear discs getting rusty from little use.

It should also help your new pads bed in.

It is general EV advice from many owners (all brands) to try and do this weekly.

Mine have been OK over Summer but definitley need a good braking session after this cold wet weather and little brake use. I use a quiet dual c/w and on the lowest regen brake very hard from from 70mph twice in a row. Seems to work and clean up the rusty discs and stop the sqealing ?

 

[Anon70]

Set regen to 1 (min) and have a trip to Milton Keynes (so you have 130 roundabouts to slow down for).

Alternatively find somewhere you can reverse at speeds close to 10mph and then hard brake a few times.

Essentially anything that is forcing the car to use the mechanical brakes rather than regen to clean up the discs and pads.

 

[Muffler]

Mine had an irritating squeal when reversing for the first couple of weeks but have bedded-in having done a few hundred miles and some occasional hard(ish) braking and now all seems good.

 

[bedsev]

Mine squeak to remind me to clean them off, as others have said, few drives on reg 1 braking late and hard