Grinding/Moaning Noise when braking!Help

[DConag]

If anyone has any advice/suggestions - please write soon! I have a 97 Explorer which has done 42k. Recently had transmission probs - fly wheel holes elongated - now sorted. Just had it serviced - new brake pads on both back wheels as well as new brake discs & shoes. For past few weeks I've noticed a moaning/grinding noise (seems to be from front passenger side wheel) only when braking - sounds terrible. Someone suggested could be to do with ABS? any ideas/similar problems.

 

[aldive]

Originally posted by DConag
If anyone has any advice/suggestions - please write soon! I have a 97 Explorer which has done 42k. Recently had transmission probs - fly wheel holes elongated - now sorted. Just had it serviced - new brake pads on both back wheels as well as new brake discs & shoes. For past few weeks I've noticed a moaning/grinding noise (seems to be from front passenger side wheel) only when braking - sounds terrible. Someone suggested could be to do with ABS? any ideas/similar problems.

It could be that your brake pads are worn out and you are eating up the rotor(s). Get it fixed before the costs get out of hand.

Good luck....

 

[PLRBEAR]

Case in point. When i was young and stupid, i had a 92 Nissan Sunny (Sentra here) that developed the same noise you describe when i applied the brakes. Being a young man, i thought that the noise sounded really cool, like a sports car slowing down. Few days later, while driving down the road, i totally lose my front brakes (not fun!). I ended up driving to the dealership, using my handbrake to stop. Check the fronts, rule of thumb usually is to change your rear pads every other time you change the fronts. If you're changing the rears, then i'd say the fronts are about to go. The groaning noise happens when you apply the brakes because there's metal to metal contact. This will eat your rotors up in a jiffy!!

Amos

 

[Ray Lobato]

Well I see that you already had your brakes changed, but it could be that it's sticking on that side or you have something caught inbetween the brake pad and the rotor. Check and see if the rotor is scourge or anything like that. How long ago did you have the brakes done?

 

[PLRBEAR]

Uhhhh...from his post, he says he changed the rear pads, rear drums and front discs.....nothing done on the front pads it seems.

Amos

 

[ChrisHeapy]

Well, assuming worn pads were not put back in the front, I've had a similar noise which was caused by a stone getting caught in the callipers. Didn't last long though.

Chris