Brakes are so loud going in reverse

[TonyB]

I purchased this 4Runner for my lady and she gave it back because of the truck Brakes lol I will end up buying her a 5Gen 23/24 I am driving it damn it’s loud. Started at 350 miles it’s at 900 miles

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[FoozGrind]

Yup same issue I and a lot of others have. I just keep it backed in most the time where I can. It helps a little. Doesn’t seem like there’s anything we can do about it at the moment….

 

[Jakethewhippet1]

Mine are not noisy at all (fingers crossed).

 

[Hacksaw]

I purchased this 4Runner for my lady and she gave it back because of the truck Brakes lol I will end up buying her a 5Gen 23/24 I am driving it damn it’s loud. Started at 350 miles it’s at 900 miles

You're going to take a multiple thousand dollar loss in trading it in, all because of brake squeal? That doesn't make financial sense to me. For about $100-150 bucks parts and labor you could take it to a specialty brake shop and try a pad swap that may fix it (or they may have other ideas)? Just save all your receipts from the brake shop in case Toyota does issue a TSB in 9-12 months and they should compensate you for it.

I don't get it. A lot of understandable complaining but nobody willing to try anything, and at a pretty minimal cost in the grand scheme of things. Your dealer pocketed, and you willingly paid, at least 10 times the pad replacement cost to pad the dealer's pockets for zero value added--money just thrown away. And if you're financing it, there's another several thousand more you're just throwing away in interest. What's $100-150 compared to that?

I don't yet have the squeal, but if I did I'd recognize that Toyota never fixes these sorts of thing quickly (it took them almost a year from first reports to just get a fix and parts and procedure to swap out the rear brake line on Tacomas with a shorter line, and that was an actual safety issue), so if it really bothered me, I'd take some relatively inexpensive action myself. Yes it truly sucks having to pay to fix something on a brand new vehicle, but that's the sad reality at the present time. Do nothing and you've got to accept living with it for another 9-12 months (or selling at a big loss).

 

[FoozGrind]

You're going to take a multiple thousand dollar loss in trading it in, all because of brake squeal? That doesn't make financial sense to me. For about $100-150 bucks parts and labor you could take it to a specialty brake shop and try a pad swap that may fix it (or they may have other ideas)? Just save all your receipts from the brake shop in case Toyota does issue a TSB in 9-12 months and they should compensate you for it.

I don't get it. A lot of understandable complaining but nobody willing to try anything, and at a pretty minimal cost in the grand scheme of things. Your dealer pocketed, and you willingly paid, at least 10 times the pad replacement cost to pad the dealer's pockets for zero value added--money just thrown away. And if you're financing it, there's another several thousand more you're just throwing away in interest. What's $100-150 compared to that?

I don't yet have the squeal, but if I did I'd recognize that Toyota never fixes these sorts of thing quickly (it took them almost a year from first reports to just get a fix and parts and procedure to swap out the rear brake line on Tacomas with a shorter line, and that was an actual safety issue), so if it really bothered me, I'd take some relatively inexpensive action myself. Yes it truly sucks having to pay to fix something on a brand new vehicle, but that's the sad reality at the present time. Do nothing and you've got to accept living with it for another 9-12 months (or selling at a big loss).

I just called 3 brake places near me. 1 being Midas. Nobody has brakes/rotors for the 25, they would need to call Toyota. Additionally the last guy I talked to didnt even want to touch it because its so new and instisted i call toyota customer services..... The other place said new rotors/brakes for a 24 in the front are $400 installed. Unless its 100% its shooting money at the wind.

 

[TonyB]

I am keeping it for myself but buying her a 23/24 not looking to take a massive depreciation on the vehicle doesn’t make financial sense to do that. I have already opened the case with Toyota engagement. The issue is the front brakes as documented, but Toyota told them not to touch the vehicle yet until they end their engineers developed a fix..

 

[Hacksaw]

I just called 3 brake places near me. 1 being Midas. Nobody has brakes/rotors for the 25, they would need to call Toyota. Additionally the last guy I talked to didnt even want to touch it because its so new and instisted i call toyota customer services..... The other place said new rotors/brakes for a 24 in the front are $400 installed. Unless its 100% its shooting money at the wind.

I appreciate that you made these calls. But I wouldn't replace the rotors (seems like little point replacing a solid cast iron rotor with another solid cast iron rotor), just the pads. The composition of pads can vary a lot. I've seen pads alone fix squeal on other cars.

I get your point about it being a guess, but that's why I suggested someone ask TRD Jon to do it (making mods to Toyotas is his chosen profession, and his 4runner has the squeal, and swapping pads would probably be the cheapest mod he ever made and it's sort of his mission to help out owners, even if he has to try a couple before it fixes it; it might even be a tax write-off for him).

I'd make a note of the brake shop that told you they wouldn't touch it because it's new, and never take any car to them. What a ridiculous thing for a brake shop to say. There's nothing high tech or bleeding edge about the brakes, especially just replacing the pads.

 

[Archer]

I seen a video where they fixed the squell with I believe the Tundra and it was the spring clip not keeping enough tension on the pads. They switched to a old style clip and new pads and were good to go. I believe it was a Toyota Dealership that the video was shot from. I'll try and find it.

Found it, not sure if this is the issue or not, I wasn't there when they installed my new tires so I'm not sure what kind of retainer clips are on the 6Gen.



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[Wsspitz]

I purchased this 4Runner for my lady and she gave it back because of the truck Brakes lol I will end up buying her a 5Gen 23/24 I am driving it damn it’s loud. Started at 350 miles it’s at 900 miles

I posted my response on another thread, but the short and simple response. I brought mine back to the dealer and they found out that the pads had too much metal in them. So they replace the pads and resurface the rotors it's been 4 days and the noise hasn't come back

 

[TonyB]

Toyota told my dealer not to make no repairs at this time don’t understand why they would say that. After finding the problem

 

[Wsspitz]

Here is a snapshot from the invoice.

 

[FoozGrind]

I posted my response on another thread, but the short and simple response. I brought mine back to the dealer and they found out that the pads had too much metal in them. So they replace the pads and resurface the rotors it's been 4 days and the noise hasn't come back

I hope this works! My dealer said anything they try besides the tsb the noise always comes back that’s why they won’t try anything yet.

 

[Wsspitz]

We will find out. Hopefully they are wrong.

 

[FoozGrind]

At least your dealer did something! I hope it works out so I can go ask them to do the same

 

[Wsspitz]

I will post if it comes back. It took 3k miles furniture to begin.

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