this past week my front wheel area has been making a very annoying squeeking noise..my dad tells me that its the brake pads? any idea? when your brake pads need to be replaced, did it make a squeeking noise? he says that its made so that once it touches a certain point, the squeeking noise occurs to let you know you need new pads?

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this past week my front wheel area has been making a very annoying squeeking noise..my dad tells me that its the brake pads? any idea? when your brake pads need to be replaced, did it make a squeeking noise? he says that its made so that once it touches a certain point, the squeeking noise occurs to let you know you need new pads?

Yeah, it's probably pads. On each brake pad, there's a thin piece of sheet metal that's mounted to the pad. Once the pad wears to a certain point, the sheet metal lightly touches the rotor and makes a squealing noise to let you know that you're nearly at the end of the pad. The piece of sheet metal is normally soft and will bend, so it doesn't cause (major) damage to the rotors.

Make sure to look at your rotors to ensure that the sheet metal hasn't scraped them and left any grooves in the rotor. If it has, you can either get the rotors re-machined (normally $10-15 per rotor) if the grooves are real minor, or replace the rotors ($50 to 100 each, depending on which rotors you go with). Replacing brake pads is extremely easy and only requires a 12mm socket, C-clamp and a set of needle-nose pliers. Replacing rotors requires an impact screwdriver (to remove the screws that lock the rotors in place) and a 17mm socket (and a lot of force) to take off the brake caliper mounting bracket.

you do know this thread is almost 5 months old right?

good advice none the less