Had my pads and rotors replaced today. After they finished, one of the techs took my car out for what seemed like a 10 min joyride. That much pissed me off but, because I was in a hurry, I didn't feel like making a big deal about it. That much paled in comparison to the issues I'm having with the brakes. Again, if I wasn't in such a hurry I would have turned around immediately and went back. If the problems don't magically fix themselves, I plan to go back tomorrow. A) wtf? B) how could you not have heard this s*** while you went gallivanting with my car?
So yeah... on to the probs. When I'm just driving (no brakes) I'm hearing some type of rubbing/clicking sound every half second or so. Seems to speed up the faster I go... and it seems to be coming from all 4 wheels. Can really hear it good when driving next to a wall or something.
Again, I was hoping it was just part of having new parts so I did a few hard stops. The brakes already had felt less grabby (more spongy than my stockers... which I guess I can chalk up to the Hawk pads) but this time it was accompanied by a rather strange metal on metal rubbing sound. Hard to describe exactly. Definitely not the typical brake squeal... more of a low pitch sound.
I don't really know much about brake so I can't begin to speculate. But needless to say, I'm pretty pissed. I waited around forever for these guys to take my car in and assumed everything was cool after the tech logged 4 miles on my car. I'm just hoping they don't pass the blame onto the equipment or something. For what it's worth, I suppose (from a rotor standpoint anyway) that's possible. I basically got the same pads everyone else gets (Hawk HPS) so I'd doubt that's the problem. But... yeah... I may have dropped the ball on the rotors. I hesitated till now to say it but... guess it has to be said. rotorpro drilled/slotted from PG. Flame on
Seriously though... any advice/insight would be helpful. I have a bad feeling I'm gonna get the "derrr... I don't know what to tell you" treatment tomorrow. Need some ammo just in case. Thanks
So yeah... on to the probs. When I'm just driving (no brakes) I'm hearing some type of rubbing/clicking sound every half second or so. Seems to speed up the faster I go... and it seems to be coming from all 4 wheels. Can really hear it good when driving next to a wall or something.
Again, I was hoping it was just part of having new parts so I did a few hard stops. The brakes already had felt less grabby (more spongy than my stockers... which I guess I can chalk up to the Hawk pads) but this time it was accompanied by a rather strange metal on metal rubbing sound. Hard to describe exactly. Definitely not the typical brake squeal... more of a low pitch sound.
I don't really know much about brake so I can't begin to speculate. But needless to say, I'm pretty pissed. I waited around forever for these guys to take my car in and assumed everything was cool after the tech logged 4 miles on my car. I'm just hoping they don't pass the blame onto the equipment or something. For what it's worth, I suppose (from a rotor standpoint anyway) that's possible. I basically got the same pads everyone else gets (Hawk HPS) so I'd doubt that's the problem. But... yeah... I may have dropped the ball on the rotors. I hesitated till now to say it but... guess it has to be said. rotorpro drilled/slotted from PG. Flame on
Seriously though... any advice/insight would be helpful. I have a bad feeling I'm gonna get the "derrr... I don't know what to tell you" treatment tomorrow. Need some ammo just in case. Thanks
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