Jeremy McCreary
Bought it anyway
- Region
- USA
- City
- Carlsbad, CA
A tangential question on brake squealing, please:
My SL's brakes normally don't squeal. But if I stop at a beach where the surf's only meters away and stay there for 5+ minutes, they squeal briefly on the way back to the Coast Highway.
Then silence till the next beach stop. Never anything visible on the brakes. Never happens inland.
Q. Why the squeal?
An onshore breeze, the daytime norm here, picks up microscopic seawater droplets and salt crystals as it passes over the breaking surf. Then it might pick up tiny sand grains as it crosses the beach to my brakes.
So which one's the culprit here — water, salt, sand, or some combo? The absence of inland cases stands against blown sand as the sole cause. And the quick resolution once I'm underway most favors water. But the salt could still be a player.
My SL's brakes normally don't squeal. But if I stop at a beach where the surf's only meters away and stay there for 5+ minutes, they squeal briefly on the way back to the Coast Highway.
Then silence till the next beach stop. Never anything visible on the brakes. Never happens inland.
Q. Why the squeal?
An onshore breeze, the daytime norm here, picks up microscopic seawater droplets and salt crystals as it passes over the breaking surf. Then it might pick up tiny sand grains as it crosses the beach to my brakes.
So which one's the culprit here — water, salt, sand, or some combo? The absence of inland cases stands against blown sand as the sole cause. And the quick resolution once I'm underway most favors water. But the salt could still be a player.
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