I've had a set since Styling Concepts first started shipping them several years ago. Got about 25k of abusive use with no problems except minor cracks in the rotors. Baer worked me a deal and I replaced them when the pads were done.

Unfortunately, I can't get them to stop squealing. Baer doesn't have a fix except change to the newer ceramic pads.

The first set lived a hard life of stopping a 5400# truck hard and fast, but never made any noise. The second set makes so much noise in stop and go traffic that it is extremely embarrassing. This only happens at slow speeds below ten mph to zero.

Anyone having/had these squeal problems?

 

I hear you man. mine squeek like I am too cheap to buy new brake pads. They do stop well but the dust and the squeeking drive me nutz.

 

it's possible the metal shims for the pads are making contact with the rotor. Mine did that, just clearanced then a bit and everything is fine.

 

re bed the pads .

 

Once I changed the pads the squeek was GONE.

 

What pads did you change to? I talked to tybyrne and they pointed me to ceramics but said it would affect breaking distance since the ceramic would get hot and not work so well.

 

Another note: if your squealing is when you apply the brakes, then it's your pads. You could try some anti-squeal or some news pads properly installed with anti-squeal.

If the squealing is all the time, no matter if braking or not, then you have an interference problem, as I mentioned before.

 

Not all the time and only under braking but Baer said it is normal due to the compound the pads are made of.

 

The squealing is only with light braking pressure from 10-15 mph to stop.

I have re bed the brakes once.

The ceramic pads (which are the only ones they sell now), are supposed to have the same coefficient of friction when hot as the original pads but need to have heat put in them to achieve the #. The pads I have are the original type that grip hard hot or cold but produce a lot of dust.

I don't mind the dust too much but can't stand the noise.

Like I said in my post, Baer can't give me a solution to the noise.

 

you can just buy pads from autozone or wherever, the alumasport pads are the same exact pads a chrysler 300c uses. not the srt 8 but the regular 5.7 hemi 300c