AudA2Numpty
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Hello all,
Please correct me if I am wrong but I thought brake pads were a flat shape which was parallel to the brake disc?
The ones that appear to be on my car are a wedge shape and do not appear to be flat against the brake disc.
Is this correct?
I had my car serviced and MOT’d last year (June 2017), just before moving to France. Included in the work were brake disks and brake pads replacements.
The A2 has not done many miles since being in France (1275) as we have mostly used our electric car.
When we did use our A2 in France there always seem to be a squeal coming from the brakes, like Stones kept getting caught in the brake pads, it also seem to happen quite regularly, which I thought was odd. Though having experienced this before I put it down to the gravel road we constantly had to drive up to get to our house. This is when I originally noticed the wedge shaped brake pads (July 2017)
Admittedly I have not done anything about it as the car has been working OK and stopping and we barely drove it anyway. As I had paid a princely sum for the work, I had assumed that the garage that did it fitted the correct parts and did the work correctly.
I just assumed I was just going mad. Typically, while in France the suspension struts and bearings started playing up.
As I needed to return to the UK I thought I'd take the A2 with me and fix the suspension and take another look at the break pads.
What do you guys think, is this wedge shape correct?
From other cars I've looked at, it does not seem correct.
Please correct me if I am wrong but I thought brake pads were a flat shape which was parallel to the brake disc?
The ones that appear to be on my car are a wedge shape and do not appear to be flat against the brake disc.
Is this correct?
I had my car serviced and MOT’d last year (June 2017), just before moving to France. Included in the work were brake disks and brake pads replacements.
The A2 has not done many miles since being in France (1275) as we have mostly used our electric car.
When we did use our A2 in France there always seem to be a squeal coming from the brakes, like Stones kept getting caught in the brake pads, it also seem to happen quite regularly, which I thought was odd. Though having experienced this before I put it down to the gravel road we constantly had to drive up to get to our house. This is when I originally noticed the wedge shaped brake pads (July 2017)
Admittedly I have not done anything about it as the car has been working OK and stopping and we barely drove it anyway. As I had paid a princely sum for the work, I had assumed that the garage that did it fitted the correct parts and did the work correctly.
I just assumed I was just going mad. Typically, while in France the suspension struts and bearings started playing up.
As I needed to return to the UK I thought I'd take the A2 with me and fix the suspension and take another look at the break pads.
What do you guys think, is this wedge shape correct?
From other cars I've looked at, it does not seem correct.
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