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I have to share the stupidity of this.

I recently bought a Forester(privately) and the front wheel hub bearing needed replacing it made the brakes rattle and made a loud noise.
When I first drove the car there wasn't much brake noise but I noticed they didn't seem to pull up very sharply.
Ok so I took the car round to RSR555 to change the hub with one I got from a wreckers. (and that's another story )
We found some clever person had put grease, yes GREASE! on the brake pads!
WHAT THA FLICK! unbelievable!:shock:

Presumably to make them quiet???

My guess is they were greased to stop the severe vibration they would've made with the stuffed hub

TOONGA

Quite clever really, but what a Wan&^%

Yeah, if done to stop a squeak they were a moron. If it was done to quiet a dodgy hub so they could sell it, that's pretty scummy.

nah, tis an old water repelling trick to improve braking in the wet , think I went to school with the former owner - he used to oil his bikes brake blocks for improved wet weather brakes

Yep Toonga I think it was done for that reason to sell the car. He said he was a heavy machine truck eletrician. So he must have known about cars.

I've seen people put grease on the back side of brake pads when all the little shims & stuff are long gone. It's supposed to stop the pads rattling round in there. I used to order the shims & put them back in.