# Sqeaking or screeching or squealing coming from the wheels

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/sqeaking-or-screeching-or-squealing-coming-from-the-wheels/9818>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Tags:** outback, brakes, subaru\
**Created:** [January 25, 2008, 5:02pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/sqeaking-or-screeching-or-squealing-coming-from-the-wheels/9818 "2008-01-25T17:02:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![gilhouse](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/gilhouse/32/639_2.png) [@gilhouse](https://community.cartalk.com/u/gilhouse)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 5:02pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/sqeaking-or-screeching-or-squealing-coming-from-the-wheels/9818/1 "2008-01-25T17:02:14Z")

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My 99 Subaru outback squeals and squeaks incessantly. I just had a brake job on both axles, and the squealing goes away when the brakes are applied, and reappears while moving at any speed.  
  
 thanks

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**Author:** ![Tester](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/tester/32/15976_2.png) [@Tester](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Tester)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 9:55pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/sqeaking-or-screeching-or-squealing-coming-from-the-wheels/9818/2 "2008-01-25T21:55:38Z")

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When the brake job was performed, were the rotors resurfaced or replaced?

Tester

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**Author:** ![gilhouse](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/gilhouse/32/639_2.png) [@gilhouse](https://community.cartalk.com/u/gilhouse)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 9:29pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/sqeaking-or-screeching-or-squealing-coming-from-the-wheels/9818/3 "2008-01-29T21:29:12Z")

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Geez, I wish I knew. I’ll have to call the mechanic.

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**Author:** ![Roadrunner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@Roadrunner](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Roadrunner)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 1:53am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/sqeaking-or-screeching-or-squealing-coming-from-the-wheels/9818/4 "2008-01-30T01:53:28Z")

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No bill? Receipt for work done?

I say take it back and let the repair shop fix the fault.

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**Author:** ![Jeremy\_R\_Hoyt](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/jeremy_r_hoyt/32/37_2.png) [@Jeremy\_R\_Hoyt](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Jeremy_R_Hoyt)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 6:48pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/sqeaking-or-screeching-or-squealing-coming-from-the-wheels/9818/5 "2008-01-30T18:48:36Z")

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It could be that the rotors were not resurfaced, but it could also be that they simply used cheap metallic brake pads.

When you say “…the squealing goes away when the brakes are applied, and reappears while moving at any speed.” are you saying they squeal while you are not applying them at all? That should not ever happen.