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<blockquote data-quote="Motokid" data-source="post: 8681912" data-attributes="member: 644415"><p>So the wifes car is only about 2.5 years old and has 60k miles on it. Around the early 50k or so the brakes started squeaking pretty bad.. Mostly in the mornings when the car hasn&#039;t been driven or if its raining. Also, if im driving down the freeway and slow down i get a pretty loud hissing noise. So, i spent about $40 on new brakes. Only to find out the pads that came stock literally had half the tread left.. I said screw it, may as well replace them. they were only $40 and i have the tires off.. So i did that.. Still the same result. The rotors are super smooth. They&#039;re not torn up or anything. But from what i&#039;ve read is because they&#039;re &#039;too smooth&#039; and need to be roughened up. I tried taking rough sandpaper to them, didn&#039;t seem to help but that&#039;s probably because i didn&#039;t sand them down enough.. So, at this point, I&#039;m just wondering if the $40 pads i put on 5k miles ago are salvageable. But, it&#039;s sounding like I may as well buy new pads and rotors. It&#039;s a tiny little car and I can get a brake/rotor kit for liek $100 so I may as well do it.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Motokid, post: 8681912, member: 644415"] So the wifes car is only about 2.5 years old and has 60k miles on it. Around the early 50k or so the brakes started squeaking pretty bad.. Mostly in the mornings when the car hasn't been driven or if its raining. Also, if im driving down the freeway and slow down i get a pretty loud hissing noise. So, i spent about $40 on new brakes. Only to find out the pads that came stock literally had half the tread left.. I said screw it, may as well replace them. they were only $40 and i have the tires off.. So i did that.. Still the same result. The rotors are super smooth. They're not torn up or anything. But from what i've read is because they're 'too smooth' and need to be roughened up. I tried taking rough sandpaper to them, didn't seem to help but that's probably because i didn't sand them down enough.. So, at this point, I'm just wondering if the $40 pads i put on 5k miles ago are salvageable. But, it's sounding like I may as well buy new pads and rotors. It's a tiny little car and I can get a brake/rotor kit for liek $100 so I may as well do it. [/QUOTE]

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