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Is having squealing/heavily vibrating hydraulic brakes (Shimano XT) a harbinger to the fact I need new pads, and are there any pads that are less likely to be noisy than others?
Worn out pads normally make grinding and grating noises, squealing and vibrating is usually down to contamination(such as oil on the pads), glazing(dragging brakes on long descents?), or maybe a misaligned caliper/sticky piston(do both pads hit the disc dead square and at exactly the same time?).
Also worth checking all your bolts are tight too.
Cheers coatesy, I suspect it may be glazing then as everything else seems in order, is there any cure for this apart from not being a sissy and using my brakes so much on long descents?
