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<blockquote data-quote="StrayBullitt" data-source="post: 15897959" data-attributes="member: 181759"><p>[USER=169099]@Dinosgt[/USER] how many street miles have you given the new brakes total? It looks to me like you just haven't quite driven it enough and the pads are not fully seated in and don't have full contact yet. I'd probably give it a few hundred miles before you worry. You have to have pressure on the inside pad before your caliper clamps and pulls the outside pad onto the rotor.. also when this happens the caliper tends to want to flex a little so to speak, or deflect because the outside of the caliper is just floating, it's not fixed to anything. I bet if you had the wheels off the car and had it on stands, if you had someone push the brake pedal for you, you can probably see it happen.</p><p></p><p>I would pull the caliper pins out and clean them up really well and grease so they move really easily if you didn't already, put everything back together and give it some more miles. I believe the chamfered pad edge is only for noise reduction, less likely to squeal, not really a major concern of a high performance pad manufacturer, but definitely for an OEM.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="StrayBullitt, post: 15897959, member: 181759"] [USER=169099]@Dinosgt[/USER] how many street miles have you given the new brakes total? It looks to me like you just haven't quite driven it enough and the pads are not fully seated in and don't have full contact yet. I'd probably give it a few hundred miles before you worry. You have to have pressure on the inside pad before your caliper clamps and pulls the outside pad onto the rotor.. also when this happens the caliper tends to want to flex a little so to speak, or deflect because the outside of the caliper is just floating, it's not fixed to anything. I bet if you had the wheels off the car and had it on stands, if you had someone push the brake pedal for you, you can probably see it happen. I would pull the caliper pins out and clean them up really well and grease so they move really easily if you didn't already, put everything back together and give it some more miles. I believe the chamfered pad edge is only for noise reduction, less likely to squeal, not really a major concern of a high performance pad manufacturer, but definitely for an OEM. [/QUOTE]
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