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Should dealer fix squealing brakes under warranty?

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Old 06-30-2003, 02:10 PM
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Default Should dealer fix squealing brakes under warranty?

I took my car to the dealer today and when I told them my brakes are squealing (pretty badly), they said that they are designed to squeak under low braking pressure, which I assume was to imply that if that's all they find, they're not going to fix anything. The more I think about it, though, the more it seems unacceptable that my warrantied car have brakes that squeak loudly enough to be a bother. What do you all think?

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Default Take it back & make sure they find out what the real problem is...

brakes shouldn't squeal unless something is up
Old 06-30-2003, 02:19 PM
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Default i think its bull **** too

but in reality brakes do just squeak, it sucks, mine do it too. I believe that audi will do nothing about the problem as they have literarture sitting in my service centers office that explains that brakes do and will squeak.
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Hmm.. Two differing opinions. Which is right? hehe
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not to the point where u can hear when ur in the car
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Default mine were replaced under warranty for "excessive noise" they sounded like they were grinding even

though I had about 50% of my pad left
that was at 13K miles too
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