Suspension Brakes 1st Gen Most liked posts in thread: Noisy brakes

The pads/rotors may be glazed. Try taking the MINI up to speed and doing a few hard stop to wipe the rotors clean. See if that helps.

You can also apply some anti-squeal goop to the backs of the pads, see if that helps.

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:cornut: This is a not uncommon problem when brake pads need replacing and the disc/rotors don't need and are not replaced. Replace the pads and keep the old but perfectly good discs and this squeeking often but not always occurs. It is an irritateing but not dangerous situation. Getting rid of the squeeking can be done by replacing pads and rotors with new ones but is it worth the cost? Now I'm assuming that the rest of the breaking system was checked and found to be in good working order. Money or squeek, take your pick.

Jason

 

The clips that hold the pads to the pistons could have came loose or fell off. Mine did that and now they squeek when you first let off them until u get to speed and the pads kick off the rotor

 

What he said /\

Make sure whoever did them, did them right.

If they used cheap aftermarket pads, the only thing that might cure it is to just use them up and replace with better pads next time.