I have had my 2004 Dynamic TL for just over a month now. I have only put on a little of 1000kms; but at this point it should be mostly broken in IMPO. I find my breaks are horrible, whenever coming to a slow stop (i.e. light/normal break pressure) I get a high pitched sqeal that irritates the hell out of me. I haven't brought it in yet to get looked at, but I will be this week. Has anyone else run into this problem??? Any thoughts?

 

Breaks... brakes... ever notice you don't see the spelling mistakes until after you post?

 

No_Remorse,

Welcome to the board! I believe you are talking about the 6MT when you are referring to the dynamic TL. The Brembos come with a higher friction pad that will squeal as a trade off for improved performance. There has been many compaints from 6MT and a few 5AT owners. You can try hosing the pads with a garden hose to wash out build up of brake dust but that won't last long. Supposedly Acura is working on a fix with different pad formulations but I won't hold my breath :smackhead . Just turn up the stereo for now and know that you have superior brakes that will stop on a dime .

dsc888

 

Thanx for the welcome.

That is sortta what I didn’t want to hear. I was hoping it was a fixable problem, but thank you for the info.

 

I have a 6MT and from time to time I hear the same thing. I was kicking myself think that I was driving/braking too hard. I am glad to know that it is a feature :smokin:

 

there are a bunch of threads on here about how to break in the brakes. If we're indeed talking about the brembo brakes then the squeling is completely normal until they are broken-in (bedded).

just search 'brembo'

 

Thanx for the info, I have read through several threads now and have to say I am very disappointed. By the sounds of it, this won't go away, at least not any time soon... had I known this before I bought the TL, I may have weighted my choices a little differently...

I am still going to take it in anyways to create the service record, maybe have some sort of miracle performed... but what a piss-off...

 

it is completely and totally normal. it will go away. follow the instructions found in those threads. It happens on all high performance brakes.

 

tried to edit...

I hear your frustration as I experienced my self. but thanks to the info found I was able to bed my brakes and they perform/sound great now.

 

You sound like my dealer. Loud squealing (not squeaking) isn't normal, and for some--like me--it hasn't gone away (7k miles). And yes, I have tried "bedding" the brakes, which solved the problem for a day or two.

 

 

When I brake hard there is no squeal, but when I'm edging up to a stop sign or in bumper to bumper traffic the bloody brakes make a racket...and in 26 years of driving on both sides of the pond I cannot ever remember any of my other cars having taken this long for the brakes to "bed in" I have had very expensive cars in the past and I don't recall this type of a problem, even my Hirsh Saab with ceramic brakes didn't have this annoying habit, and they were the hardest pads I have ever had.
Cheers, Manumad