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Brake Disc Pad

ODI ID: 737286 NHTSA Complaint ID: 267011

Make: Mitsubishi Model: 2000 ECLIPSE 00

Component/Parts: Brake Disc Pad

Failure Date: NA Complaint Date: December 04, 2000

City/State: COLUMBIA, SC (South Carolina)
Crash: NA Fire: No Injured: 0 Deaths: 0

Complaint Description: brake pads on rear of vehicle began squealing with only a few thousand miles on them. it has always been relayed to me that there is a squeal indicator built into the pads to notify you of the need to replace your brake pads. i believe it is a potential hazard to the owner since the brake shoes in the rear squeal constantly now at every use and so the owner gets use to the squeel and the brake pads will go beyond their service life and cause stopping problems. i have been told by the dealer that i just have to live with the squealing because they are semi-metallic brake pads and asbestos is no longer allowed. now if i bought into this answer we wouldn't be able to exist in the city due to all vehicles squealing loudly like my car does when braking. i can not buy into this argument at all. // the alloy wheels on this vehicle are very prone to bending in even the slightest road hazard. i have had two wheels bent and had to completely replace one. the wheel collision place didn't even want the wheel back for a core due to the extent of the bending in the wheel. this wheel didn't take much of a bump and it still bent like this. i do not know the extent of the damage to the wheel as far as the integrity of the wheel after the small road hazard. *ak .