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[feeutfo]

Yes...?

Well they came in a GM bag, from a Vx dealer!

I sort of took that as evidence enough!

[Andy B]

Oh, and if tc pads, mine and several others are the same.

My pads are TC and don't squeal ................ 

Must be the luck of the draw then!!

Probably. The current TC set replaced a TC set that squealed like a pig! 

[Marks DTM Calib]

A wipe of copper slip on the rear and edge contact faces with the caliper and file a leading edge to the friction material to

I don't understand the need to file them tbh. The shamfers are already enormous on the ones I've seen. Are there different suppliers of tc pad I wonder, just slightly different ways of making them to the same spec. maybe...?

Some fronts have the shamfer and most rears dont.

So its dependent on whos supplying VX at the time.

[sticka_v8_init]

Copper grease has always worked for me on a wide variety of cars......unless really crap pads.

[TheBoy]

I had a squeal on TBE after popping on some new TC pads a few weeks ago.  Done as a bit of an experiment for Mr Cynical (aka that gixer bloke)

Immediately cured a week or 2 later (after I knew it wasn't going to cure itself) with a smear of copper grease.  These pads already had a slight chamfer, but I did file on a bigger one on the leading edge.

[sticka_v8_init]

I had a squeal on TBE after popping on some new TC pads a few weeks ago.  Done as a bit of an experiment for Mr Cynical (aka that gixer bloke)

Immediately cured a week or 2 later (after I knew it wasn't going to cure itself) with a smear of copper grease.  These pads already had a slight chamfer, but I did file on a bigger one on the leading edge.

 

[feeutfo]

I had a squeal on TBE after popping on some new TC pads a few weeks ago.  Done as a bit of an experiment for Mr Cynical (aka that gixer bloke)

Immediately cured a week or 2 later (after I knew it wasn't going to cure itself) with a smear of copper grease.  These pads already had a slight chamfer, but I did file on a bigger one on the leading edge.

... And how long did it last?

[noel]

copper slip seems to do the job

[TheBoy]

I had a squeal on TBE after popping on some new TC pads a few weeks ago.  Done as a bit of an experiment for Mr Cynical (aka that gixer bloke)

Immediately cured a week or 2 later (after I knew it wasn't going to cure itself) with a smear of copper grease.  These pads already had a slight chamfer, but I did file on a bigger one on the leading edge.

... And how long did it last?

did you notice any squeal Sunday morning? Apart from the shite tyres....

[feeutfo]

I had a squeal on TBE after popping on some new TC pads a few weeks ago.  Done as a bit of an experiment for Mr Cynical (aka that gixer bloke)

Immediately cured a week or 2 later (after I knew it wasn't going to cure itself) with a smear of copper grease.  These pads already had a slight chamfer, but I did file on a bigger one on the leading edge.

... And how long did it last?

did you notice any squeal Sunday morning? Apart from the shite tyres....

...so any day now then...?

Although with all the other symptoms your clown car was showing, may as well chuck squeal in as well.

[feeutfo]

I had a squeal on TBE after popping on some new TC pads a few weeks ago.  Done as a bit of an experiment for Mr Cynical (aka that gixer bloke)

Immediately cured a week or 2 later (after I knew it wasn't going to cure itself) with a smear of copper grease.  These pads already had a slight chamfer, but I did file on a bigger one on the leading edge.

... And how long did it last?

did you notice any squeal Sunday morning? Apart from the shite tyres....

...so any day now then...?

Although with all the other symptoms your clown car was showing, may as well chuck squeal in as well.

hold up, those discs where rusty as fleck as I recall.

[TheBoy]

I had a squeal on TBE after popping on some new TC pads a few weeks ago.  Done as a bit of an experiment for Mr Cynical (aka that gixer bloke)

Immediately cured a week or 2 later (after I knew it wasn't going to cure itself) with a smear of copper grease.  These pads already had a slight chamfer, but I did file on a bigger one on the leading edge.

... And how long did it last?

did you notice any squeal Sunday morning? Apart from the shite tyres....

...so any day now then...?

Although with all the other symptoms your clown car was showing, may as well chuck squeal in as well.

hold up, those discs where rusty as fleck as I recall.

Now its behaving, NSR aside, I may treat it to some nice new shiny ones...

...then again, as I'm having myself some fun wrecking tyres, I might wait a couple of months until it has shiny new tyres

[aaronjb]

Might want to order a set of tyres before you kill that set, TB.. I tried buying tyres today only to find that every choice of make was 'out of stock and unavailable'.

Oh, except Chris' favourite make, Falken. I could have those tomorrow. If I wanted. Which I don't.

[tunnie]

don't you talk bad of Falkens! I think its the large organic mass behind wheel which is the problem 

[aaronjb]

  The giant bag of mostly water? (Reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paH97dYR6Lg )

I've not tried them on the Omega to be fair - I remember them being passable on the Renault, years ago, although the grip quickly went from "alright" to "I'm going to die at the first corner" as they aged.. Thus I still steer clear