Levo Gen 2 2021 Turbo Levo Break Howl

[Mousepad90]

My 2021 starting howling whenever I break, and even though I tried to clean the rotors and clean/sand the pads...it keeps coming back. I noticed that other 2021 are having this same issue, and some have even gotten their wheels replaced under warranty. Has this happened to anyone else? Please share!

 

[RebornRider]

I had the same problem with my SRAM Code brakes. I would wet-sand the pads with 320 grit on a piece of glass, scuff the rotors with a surface conditioning disk in my die grinder, then do a careful bedding in. My regular route has some steep descents that are shared with hikers along with their kids and dogs. If I had to slow from 25 mph to 5 mph several times while going down the steep sections, the Codes would be howling by the time I got to the bottom.

I finally got so tired of the weekly sand/bed process that I bought a set of Magura MT7s and Magura MDR-P rotors. The Maguras don't howl, mine don't click, and they haven't needed any love outside of one pad replacement so far. Lots of Magura questions answered in other threads!