I recently had my brakes and rotors changed on an 06 HHR. The HHR is braking fine, but there is a large squealing noise every time I brake. Also I am curious if the pedal should still go to the floor easily. I don't feel like it's tightening up at all when pressing down. The brake have been bled and nothing has changed.

Can someone let me know if this common, and if not common what can I do to fix it? BTW, I did not use ceramic pads.

 

Did you adjust the rear brakes...???? It can affect pedal height..

You need to determine if the squeek is from the front or rear.

The rear may be dusty.

 

No, I didn't adjust the rear brakes. The squeek sounds like it is coming from the front.

 

What Rotors and pads do you have on the front?

 

Did you have a reputable shop do the work? If I didn't know better, I would say (for whatever reasons) the pads are not seating properly. There can be a number of reasons for this. If it's not right 1) they should have caught (unless they just slapped the parts in and called it good), 2) they need to make it right.

 

My uncle changed them. I have never changed out pads and rotors before myself. My uncle though has done several brake changes. I want to say he used a c-clamp when putting the pads on.

 

He would have used the c-clamp to compress the caliper piston(s) to refit the pads. Hard to say what might have gone wrong (or not) without a lot speculation.

I would ask him about it or if you think that's a touchy situation take it to shop.

 

Take it back apart and upt it back together again. Sounds like something just didn't go back together right.

 

Noise on disks is normally lose pads. Pads will viberate and squeel. In some cases you may need to use a sound deadener from peratex.
Pads must be tight in the caliper.

Low pedal are rear shoes in need of adjustment or you may need to bleed to air out of the system. I have seen some systems need bleed even if they were not opened. Air will give a low pedal.

 

I have a mechanic next door to me that says you should not use C-clamps to compress the rotors on the newer vehicles with anti-lock brakes. His theory is the back flow through the valve and pump mechanisms is bad for the unit.

He says it is better to crack a bleeder and when finished with the job to bleed the brakes.

Just putting this out there for discussion.