I was getting a brake groan on the front passenger side after the brakes had warmed up and only under harder braking under about 30mph. Pads have a few mm of life left but haven't ever been changed with just under 60k on them. No pulsing like with a warped rotor. The guys at O'rielly had no idea either after hearing the noise.
I thought it might be bearing related and I have a few hundred miles left on the warranty so I took it to the dealer. On the test drive the tech said something about the rotor surface being too rough or something like that so I decided to take the car home instead of paying them $100 just to look at it. I moved the rotors and pads to the other side to see if the noise would move to the drivers side and cleaned the metal retainer brackets. No noise anymore.
Any ideas what it could have been? The metal retainer clips had fair amount of buildup on them but I'm not sure what is normal.
I thought it might be bearing related and I have a few hundred miles left on the warranty so I took it to the dealer. On the test drive the tech said something about the rotor surface being too rough or something like that so I decided to take the car home instead of paying them $100 just to look at it. I moved the rotors and pads to the other side to see if the noise would move to the drivers side and cleaned the metal retainer brackets. No noise anymore.
Any ideas what it could have been? The metal retainer clips had fair amount of buildup on them but I'm not sure what is normal.
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