GRINDING, and its not my tranny this time.

[MyEclipse5]

My brakes, well brake, is horrible...starting today for no reason it started making this "shwi-shwi-shwi" sound when im driving and as im stopping under 10mph it goes to a " grrrrrrsshhhhgggrrr"(hard to explain) well it sounds HORRIBLE, so i get out to check and in my rear driver side rotor there is a GROVE carved out, so something is CARVING a grove in my rotor. I got home at 11:00 and have to go to bed, so i have no time to pull the tire and caliper off to check, so my dad is taking it to a brakes guy tomorrow(he gives the guy free donuts, so hopefully the guy will look at it for free) and i guess ill find out then..

Any ideas though?

 

[LifIsPeachy02]

yea replace the brake pads and rotors now that they have a groove worn in them.

 

[Defiant]

Yeah, once you use up the pad material and get down to steel grinding on cast iron, it doesn't brake so well.

Uh.... when _was_ the last time you inspected your pads for thickness?


Thought so.

 

[MyEclipse5]

the guy who i bought it from replaced them last summer, both of the parts....first time ince he had botton the car