Let me give you my story, for what it's worth. I had both the front brake squeak and the rear brake squeak occur shortly after getting my Japanese-made TCH last July. When the TSBs came out, I had them both applied to my car. Since the Canadian TSBs come out some weeks after the corresponding US ones, it wasn't until late December that the second of the two (the front) was completed. The squeaks seem to have been completely cured by these TSBs, and so I do recommend that you have them done.

However, in connection with the reluctance of some people to have the service technicians work unnecessarily on their car, I can empathize, and I feel similarly. My experience over the years is that the less work they do on your car the better in general! Often they don't seem to get things back together as well as the factory originally did.

In early January this year, before heading off on a 1500-km round trip to visit my brother in Indiana, I took my TCH in to the dealer complaining of a small "clunk" from the front suspension when negotiating road surface irregularities. They couldn't find anything wrong. After the trip, I again took the car in with the same complaint, and again nothing was to be found. About a month ago I went back for a third time, and this time took the technician out for a ride, and as luck would have it, we succeeded in finding a section of road where a drain-cover depression consistently triggered the "clunk." About an hour later, after the technician had given up locating the source of the "clunk," he asked one of his colleagues to come out with him for a ride, but the second guy also was flummoxed. Up on the hoist went the car for the third time that day, and after much prodding and pulling on the front suspension parts, the second technician happened by chance to notice that one of the two bolts that hold the left front brake caliper assembly on to the suspension was missing, and that the remaining bolt was loose! Yes, that was it! A loose front caliper assembly. The fix was simple — put the missing bolt back in.

The punch line: The second technician was the one who had done the front brake squeak TSB work last December! It was after this that the "clunk" had first made its appearance. That bolt hadn't been properly re-tightened, and had fallen out shortly thereafter — I had in fact heard a metallic-sounding clang while driving around town shortly thereafter, but couldn't see anything on the road or feel anything wrong with the car, and had figured that it was just caused by a piece of debris thrown up by the tires. So, I had taken a long trip, and driven the car for six months with an important bolt missing from my brakes. Had the second bolt fallen out (and it was only a matter of time until this would have happened), I would have lost my front left brake assembly altogether! This could have led to a serious accident. The technician who had done the front TSB work had been careless. Fortunately, no-one was hurt, and things are now fine, but it was just luck that we located the problem before an accident occurred. So, there you have it. You have work done on your car at your own risk!

Stan