Slow speed squeak

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Rivendell
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I have a high pitched squeak when travelling at slow speeds (10 - 30mph approx). It’s tricky to know exactly where it’s coming from, but seems more from the front than the rear. It only occurs when the engine has warmed up and I’ve been on the road for over, say, 50 miles. I never notice it on short trips. As soon as I touch the brakes the noise stops. I’ve tried braking hard to ‘clean’ the discs and have driven in wet weather with no change. It’s not a massive issue but it is a niggle. Anyone any ideas?
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As the noise stops when the brakes are engaged, it could be either the pads are sticking a tiny bit on caliper pins, or they are just resonating against the disc slightly. Usually a bit of copper grease applied to the back of the pads (which stops them resonating), cures it and the calipers/pins can have any clogged up brake dust cleaned off at the same time.
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Are they original pads and discs?

May be a stone, but normally sounds like a grind as opposed to a squeak....
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Thank you. It’s definitely not a stone (had that on a previous car). The copper grease idea sounds good. I’ll give it a go (or, more accurately, ask the garage to when it’s serviced) The car has only done 5K and everything is factory fit.
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Probably not your issue but I recently had a screeching from the front right when I applied left lock. Turned out that one of the Torx bolts that holds the brake shield had started to unscrew itself and was rubbing on the back of the disc, worse when left lock was applied due to flexing in the system. My local independent diagnosed the problem, applied thread lock on all three bolts, did a bit of grinding on the affected part of the disc and all is well again.
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