Q: My ’05 Toyota Tacoma, with less than 20,000 miles, has brakes that continuously squeal upon application. The local Toyota garage claims they disassembled each brake and found no root cause for the ...
We all know the sound well: brake squeal. The high-pitched noise emitted from the pads and rotors that causes stress, and sometimes embarrassment. But, don't fret. Porsche wants drivers to know it's a ...
What noise should a Porsche make? If it's under hard acceleration, you'd probably expect the roar of a flat-six, but at lower speeds your six-figure sports car might be making sounds more like a ...
ATTENTION PORSCHE OWNERS—how dare you imagine for even a moment the precision engineering of a Porsche product was imperfect. Your complaints about brake squeal are invalid. You should know brake ...
Dear Tom, Every time I hit the brake pedal, my brakes make this awful high-pitched squeal. When I stop at a light I get stares from people. It’s embarrassing! I just had the brakes done last month, so ...
Q: I have a 2017 Toyota RAV4. Each time I back out of the garage, the rear brakes squeal. I took it to a mechanic, who took the brakes apart, shaved some rust off the discs and cleaned and lubed the ...
Squealing brakes cost auto manufacturers several hundred million dollars a year in warranty repairs and are among consumers' top 20 vehicle complaints – even in luxury cars. Now, acoustics researchers ...
If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance at one point in your driving career you heard strange noises coming from under, over, or inside the car. Some of the most scary such noises are those ...
In the video below, presumably created in response to an abundance of customer complaints, Porsche explains that its cars are precisely engineered to the highest standards of excellence but brake ...
Car owners continuously run into issues while using their vehicles. While some problems are tolerable, others border on irritating and not only for the driver. One such issue is squeaky brakes. How ...
A new, expensive Mercedes has some owners making noise about the brakes. It's not a safety issue, just an annoying sound. It's the dream vehicle Steve Firmature always wanted. "This is my retirement ...
I have a 1999 ford Mustang. It just hit 36,000 miles, time for new brakes. Now, I'm pretty uninformed when it comes to cars, and the dealers tell me $199 for the front brakes. I thought that was ...