CARS.COM — If you’re lucky, the squealing or squeaking noise that your brakes make when you first drive your car in the morning, particularly after rain or snow, is just surface rust being scraped off ...

Brake pads are not too expensive to replace and are not worth scrimping on. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

I recently purchased a six-year-old car, which makes a hissing sound when I apply the brakes. The salesman who sold me the car said it was normal. What is the cause of the noise and is it really ...

Q: While driving north on Route 512 leaving Bath, I noticed signs that said “Brake Retarders Prohibited.” I used to live in Bath and have driven that stretch millions of times, never noticing them, so ...

Cold morning brake squeal usually comes from normal physics and normal brake materials, not an imminent failure. Overnight moisture leaves a film on iron rotors, cold parts sit with slightly different ...

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 ...

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 ...

Brake bedding sounds like a niche track-day ritual, but it is one of the simplest ways to make everyday stopping safer, quieter and more consistent. Done correctly, it lets new pads and rotors work as ...

Just as your gas mileage will vary depending on where and how you drive, so it goes with the life of brake pads (or brake shoes), the friction material that gets pressed against a metal disc (rotor) ...