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Old 05-01-2007, 07:09 PM
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Every week I must thoroughly spray the brakes with the hose (when cold) flush out the calipers and make sure to spray all the perforations well; but eventually the damn slow speed squeal always returns. I've tried all the high speed braking stuff etc etc and nothing seems to work. A guy on Renntech had the exact same problem on his new 07C4S and his dealership cleaned the brakes and applied anti squeal paste about 3 weeks ago with good results the last I heard (I will ask him again for an update). I've never had good luck with anti squeal paste curing this problem on some new MB's I've had in the past and only a rotor and pad change did the trick. My dealer is willing to try the paste...anyone have good luck with this stuff on their 997's?
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Old 05-01-2007, 07:50 PM
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Assume these are the S brakes,--not PCCB.
Old 05-01-2007, 08:13 PM
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Yes non ceramic standard S brakes...car has 2400 miles.
Old 05-01-2007, 10:35 PM
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Old 05-01-2007, 11:19 PM
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Originally Posted by 99firehawk
pm me his name if you have it, I think i remember the car, it workd out great on his car.
if you like i can tell ya what we did and what we used
Hey Brad,
You're among friends here. No need to resort to private conversation.
We'll be all ears.....I mean eyeballs!

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Old 05-02-2007, 12:01 AM
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Suggest you coat the back of the pads in a high temp product such as copaslip

http://www.molyslip.com/Products/Copaslip.html

Stops the pads vibrating under braking, and this stops the squeal.

The cheap pad gunk may not stand the high temps of the Porsche brakes - Copaslip is the best product I've used for this application.
Old 05-02-2007, 02:31 AM
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Hi,
My brakes are squeaking with blue pads. Will
look into copaslip.
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Hey 500. Do you still have squealing brakes or do you know of a fix? Mine sounds like a old school bus. I do the wash but only get two days out of it.
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Perhaps you need to make all braking situations PANIC braking scenarios. THAT would help!
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Originally Posted by Bigwave
Hey 500. Do you still have squealing brakes or do you know of a fix? Mine sounds like a old school bus. I do the wash but only get two days out of it.
Porsche replaced pads and rotors some time ago, thankfully I had them keep a record of the noise from around 1000 miles on as Porsche is not too crazy about replacing these things lol...
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Not to hijack the threads but my PCCB's squeal. I figured it was the cost of having the PCCB's. Other's don't have this problem?
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huh? My brakes never squeak.
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Originally Posted by stom_m3
Not to hijack the threads but my PCCB's squeal. I figured it was the cost of having the PCCB's. Other's don't have this problem?
32K miles, same pads, haven't heard a squeal yet!
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Originally Posted by 500
Porsche replaced pads and rotors some time ago, thankfully I had them keep a record of the noise from around 1000 miles on as Porsche is not too crazy about replacing these things lol...
Replaced all that and you still have the same noise?


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