• and any noise would be contamination and should burn off.

    That's proper honking, pads contaminated/burnt, either need a proper cleaning/sanding or new pads time.

    take out the pads, have a look, if it's very shiny, it's burnt out/contaminated.

  • I'd be really surprised if they are contaminated.

    Doesn't take much to get it contaminated/burnt.

    Used to have a customer who came in with a horrible squeal after a week, turn out he been holding his brakes on all the time every time he come to a stop burning out the pads.

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