Gator_S2K

Okay, thanks. I will check it out once I get home today. I hope its that. My only other thought is maybe a belt

Saki GT

It it speed sensitive? I could be a rock.

Gator_S2K

It doesn't seem to be. But it won't make any noise at a stop.

Moddiction

Don't think it would be the pads as it is not happening during braking you said right?
The wear indicator from my experience wouldn't squeal unless you were pressing the brakes.

BBS2000

At first when the pad gets low it might only squeal when the brakes are pressed but sometimes not hence the intermitent squealing. When the pads get low enough the indicator will rub all the time whether the brakes are pressed or not. In my 30+ years working on cars and at Ford 8 out 10 times people would bring there cars in for this same thing and it was the brake pads being worn out, alot of people think of the brake pads last, most of the time they wait to late till they have to buy rotors because the worn out brake pads ate the rotors up.
I'm not saying I'm 100% sure that this is the problem because I'm not there to check things out.

JackS

E-brake fully down?

Gator_S2K

Well, you were right BBS2000. The outer left-front brake pad had plenty of meat and the inner was scraped low. Its apparent that I have a bigger issue than replacing the pads. What are your thoughts? Air bubble in the lines? or is my caliper bad w/only 40k on it? I could feel the rotor binding when i spun it after i took the wheel off. Here are some pics:
Left-front outer:


Left-front inner: (ignore the bent signal arm, I did that to stop the squealing.. I'm ordering new pads tonight)

Robert O

The uneven wear on that one pad is indicative of sticky caliper guides. Not to mention that it's wore down to the nub. My guess is that you've found your screeching problem. You did infer that the steering doesn't make this sound when the car is not rolling and the wheel is turned ....right?

00S2K01S4

Both pads are really low.

Robert O

I see one pad as really low and one pad practically gone.Both are showing uneven wear. I'd also recommend inspecting the rotor closely as well before chunkinbg in another set of pads. Make sure 1) its not grooved out 2) it doesn't have excessive runout. Might even need replacing if it can't be machined into spec. Personally when my rotors are wear damaged I just replace them. many of these auto-parts shop resurface jobs ,unless done by a savvy machinist with a properly set-up tool don't turn out real good.