What is this noise??
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From: La Belle Province
You need to remove the wheel, not only lift it up and check...
It takes 5 minutes : remove caliper, clean the brakes with brake cleaner, check the metal shield that protects the rotor (disc) to ensure that it's not bended or something like that. The metal is very thin and can end up touching the rotor.
It can also be a rock inside your pads so clean them out at the same time. Removing the from the caliper and cleaning everything would also be nice. Check the pad thickness to make sure you are not braking on the wear detector. I don't think that's your issue, but you never know. It's worth checking everything that would be a quick fix.
It takes 5 minutes : remove caliper, clean the brakes with brake cleaner, check the metal shield that protects the rotor (disc) to ensure that it's not bended or something like that. The metal is very thin and can end up touching the rotor.
It can also be a rock inside your pads so clean them out at the same time. Removing the from the caliper and cleaning everything would also be nice. Check the pad thickness to make sure you are not braking on the wear detector. I don't think that's your issue, but you never know. It's worth checking everything that would be a quick fix.
Last edited by Eduskator; Feb 29, 2016 at 09:50 AM.
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Driving with the brakes lightly applied does put a little tension on the pads, calipers, LCA's, balljoints and coilovers and so it could still be one of them. But, the first thing that comes to mind though is glazed pads/rotors IF the squeaking definitely goes away with the brakes lightly applied while driving.
Performing a brake pads bedding procedure may help with that and get rid of the glaze. Or go get some garnet paper (don't use regular sand paper) and sand the front and back side of the rotors and then bed the pads. But re-bedding the brakes is free and easy to do.
Or it could be that the brake calipers/pads need a little anti-squeal lube on them.
Performing a brake pads bedding procedure may help with that and get rid of the glaze. Or go get some garnet paper (don't use regular sand paper) and sand the front and back side of the rotors and then bed the pads. But re-bedding the brakes is free and easy to do.
Or it could be that the brake calipers/pads need a little anti-squeal lube on them.
Oddly I don't think it's brake-related; that type of squeak just doesn't comes from brakes or a dust shield. I'm afraid it might be your coilovers. Did you say you just got BCRs installed not too long ago? I'd make sure than everything with that shock is good. Change the dampening on it and see if the noise returns. Did you get the standard rubber upper mount or the pillowball mounts like I did?
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Oddly I don't think it's brake-related; that type of squeak just doesn't comes from brakes or a dust shield. I'm afraid it might be your coilovers. Did you say you just got BCRs installed not too long ago? I'd make sure than everything with that shock is good. Change the dampening on it and see if the noise returns. Did you get the standard rubber upper mount or the pillowball mounts like I did?
I got everything in its standard form. Regular springs and regular mounts. Had I know of these issues (assuming it's the coils) I'd have gotten pillowball mounts. I really hope it's not the Coilovers because I don't know what I'm supposed to do about it if they're going bad. I don't have another $1,000 to just throw around.
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Okay guys I'm gonna have my buddy mechanic hopefully check it out again either tomorrow or Thursday. He will take off the wheel and check everything for me since I trust him to know what to look for more than me lol. Wish me luck guys , this noise is starting to keep me up at night
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Update!!!
Had my buddy check out my wheels and pads and it tuned out to be a simple issue of glazed pads. All it took was some sand paper and a bit of rubbing on all the pads and now that stupid sound is gone. Thank God!! It was driving me crazy lol.
Had my buddy check out my wheels and pads and it tuned out to be a simple issue of glazed pads. All it took was some sand paper and a bit of rubbing on all the pads and now that stupid sound is gone. Thank God!! It was driving me crazy lol.
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Maybe because I didn't do these procedures?
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From: La Belle Province
I highly doubt dealerships or garages are doing that when changing your brakes... Doing 10 heavy brakings in a row? I'd love to see that.