Help with sqeaky 355 brakes

Different pads tend to squeak more than others. Track pads will squeak like piglets at every stop. You can try replacing the pads with porterfield R4S (the street pads) or get some anti-squeal at the local autoparts store. Apply a little to the back of each pad.

Or put on some track pads, and when they squeal to wake the dead, just shrug and say "track pads."

 

I have used AXXIS pads for all my street cars for many years. These are very low dust, no fade, no warm up and have never had them squeel.

http://www.zeckhausen.com/axxis_pads.htm

 

Do you use AXXIS Deluxe of ULT pads?

 

Many installers are not aware that the pads are directional. There's a plate on the back of the pad that covers all of one puck and 1/2 of the other. If put on backwards, you get the squeal you're talking about. Check it out. I think the 1/2 is the leading puck (?).

 

Porterfield pads solved my problems.

Dino

 

+1 use the R4S. No squeal, less dust, and better initial bite when you apply the brakes. Best change I made.

 

As of now I have the Deluxe .....

 

Ditto on my 355

 

+2
Best pads for the street IMHO.
-Billy

 

I had the Axxis Deluxe Plus on my BMW 540 M-Sport. Very good pad, and EXTREMELY low dusting. But I think the Porterfield R4S is slightly higher friction. Prefer the R4S on the Ferrari, and while I have R4S now on the BMW, I may go back to the Axxis Deluxe Plus, as I hate cleaning the multispoke wheels on my 540!

 

I use Porterfield R4, not R4S,

Very rotor friendly, great track preformance, some dust, not really very bad at all even after a track day.

Moderate squeal occasionally coming to a slow stop, strangely enough the squealing is not consistent, sometimes it does, other times it doesn’t, mostly it doesn’t.