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      03-21-2013, 05:03 PM   #16
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Originally Posted by Meeni View Post
The squeal is the noise of the sensor grinding on the rotor. The sensor will contact and trigger a good 10k miles before the pads are completely worn. However, brake performance start to decrease way before minimum pad thickness.
Interesting. Just so we're on the same page, I'm referring to the brake squeal that occurs after coming to a stop, and once accelerating away the squeal is in intermittent noise up until about 25mph or so. There isn't any noise during actual braking (braking causes the squeal to stop, in fact)
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