anti squeal pads

[Mark_T]

Brake job time is coming up and it's the first one I'm doing after buying the car last year. I see you can buy anti squeal pads and I'm wondering if they are needed for my particular application or not.

This is a 99 Boxster and I'll be using Zimmerman coated non-drilled oem rotors and most likely Textar oem pads. Daily driver.

I have about 70k miles on the car. Am I likely to find that the handbrake shoes will need replacing as well or do these things pretty much last forever? I don't use the handbrake as a steering aid, but who knows what the previous owner did.

Mark

[eightsandaces]

I highly recommend the Weltmeister (spelling?) anti squeal liners, they work awesome. They just stick on the pad backs...

[clickman]

IIRC when I did my fronts some time ago, the anti-squeal pads were for the S and not the base like you and me.

[ekam]

I find no use for them. Base boxster brakes don't have them and I did not buy them for my S front brakes.

[Mark_T]

So it would seem that they are meant to be used with the more squeal-prone drilled discs, and that the base brakes don't really need them.

Is there any downside to putting them in anyway, other than possibly money for nothing?

[ekam]

With them installed you will not be able to remove your pads while your caliper is still attached to the hub. Because of this, none of the track/auto-x guys use them either as they swap to track pads on the track.