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TonyRs5
05-08-2017, 11:08 AM
Afternoon Gentlemen,

So upon picking up my new RS7 I noticed a small squeaking when you applied the brakes. As I put more Km's on the car the squeaking seemed to get louder and more apparent. I brought the car into a local Audi where they applied some additive to the brakes and stated that if it occurs again to bring I back. The "additive" worked for maybe a week and then back to squeaking; they then replaced the pads. Hoped that this would work but roughly after 1000KM the squeaking returned.... At this point I was overly frustrated and felt that for the price that was paid for this car this is an issue that shouldn't occur. I then decided to get hawk performance pads to see if this would do the trick as with my RS5 the OEM also squeaked and when I went non OEM that solved the problem. Finally a warm Sunday came two weeks ago here in Canada so decided to put my summers back on and while I did that to replace my OEM pads with the Hawk. I am now 500KM in on these pads and again there is a squeak... I figured maybe some hard braking was needed so went on a few side roads in my area and for lack of a better word beat the shit out of the pads.... 100KM to 50KM to 70KM to full stop... then to 120KM to 60KM ETC... after that there was no squeaking for a few sets of lights then upon braking again the squeak returns...

At this point I am at a loss and have no idea what to do... At this point my next step would be to look at non OEM rotors and see if that works but I just assume with the car having a little under 18000KM this shouldn't be happening...


Anyone else have this issue or remedies? Thank you...

socialpro
05-08-2017, 11:45 AM
Afternoon Gentlemen,

So upon picking up my new RS7 I noticed a small squeaking when you applied the brakes....



Which HAWK pads did you replace the OEM ones with, the ceramic ones ? They fixed the problem for me.

Here is my thread on the subject:

http://www.audizine.com/forum/showthread.php/761166-RS7-Brake-Squeal-SOLVED!-(New-Brake-Pads)

Serpent
05-08-2017, 11:46 AM
My RS7 brakes squeak too. They have been squeaking since day one - i haven't even gone to the dealer because it doesn't really bother me anymore. All my audi's have had the squeaky break problem so I don't even hear it anymore (S4, S6 and now RS7).

TonyRs5
05-08-2017, 11:54 AM
Which HAWK pads did you replace the OEM ones with, the ceramic ones ? They fixed the problem for me.

Here is my thread on the subject:

http://www.audizine.com/forum/showthread.php/761166-RS7-Brake-Squeal-SOLVED!-(New-Brake-Pads)


The Pads I replaced the OEM with was:

High Performance Street 5.0

Is this the hawk you got?

socialpro
05-08-2017, 12:01 PM
The Pads I replaced the OEM with was:

High Performance Street 5.0

Is this the hawk you got?

No -- only the ceramic pads have worked for me for eliminating brake squeal for me. Here are the the Hawk ceramic ones I used. Been very happy with them so far. No more squeal and very low brake dust.

https://www.ecstuning.com/b-hawk-parts/front-performance-ceramic-brake-pad-set-luxury-touring-compound/hb731z.620~hk/

TonyRs5
05-08-2017, 12:08 PM
Alright; thank you...

RAF_S7
05-08-2017, 02:00 PM
Had same issue on my S7 - the squeal and excessive brake dust was driving me crazy.

Swapped to EBC Redstuff ceramic pads. Problem gone!

Im 2000miles in on the new pads and all l can hear now is the V8 [drive]

http://i1190.photobucket.com/albums/z447/jkwelsh/2017-03-10%2013.00.37_zpszgayolki.jpg (http://s1190.photobucket.com/user/jkwelsh/media/2017-03-10%2013.00.37_zpszgayolki.jpg.html)

TonyRs5
05-09-2017, 05:19 AM
That you guys... The EBC brake pads were great when I moved to them on my RS5. In terms of the RS7 EBC only offers rear pads and not front...