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Car pulls to left and squeaking noise

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Hi everyone, my car has always pulled to the left slightly, even after new suspension and having the tracking done it was doing it a month or so later. Now it is really bad and there is a rubbing/squeaking sound that accompanies it. I thought it was coming from the brakes at first as they do tend to squeak under hard braking, but this seems different.

Anyone have any ideas what it could be?

Cheers

Mike
 
ok before you do anything just jack up the car and spin the wheels see if they bind abit.. you may have a caliper that is just binding abit .. you can just push it back on the piston and then put foot on the brake peddle to close it back again to do that a few times to make it move..

I once had a sticky brake caliper..didn't know at the time. it just ever so slightly was touching but it heated up the claiper boiled the brake fluid and then when I needed the brakes at 70mph there where no brakes [&:][&:] lucky some quick thinking and avoidance of my wife in her A4 braking like mad because she could see I was in trouble and cutting up a red mini euro car I managed to get on the hard shoulder and boy did I *** my pants check them out first esp if you have brake pedal travel more than when cold once your driving along that is the fuild warming up ready to boil..
 
don't be afraid to grind off the edges of the discs.. with a grinder only need a flap wheel to take off the edge that has built up.. that as he says could be squeeling as you drive along..

being vented they rust on the inside of the vents and you can knock the rust out.. just watch out for any balance clips as well they would be needed.. but if really bad get some new ones and shop around the for the best price..
 
Mine was the same a couple of months back, was exactly whats been said here, sticky caliper, wheel would hardly spin a full turn, cleaned everything up and now its spot on
 
Hi,

It is indeed a binding pad on the disc. I managed to retract the pistons a little bit, but not enough to get the pads out. I tried various methods, pumped the brakes, retracted them again but not enough and the problem still persists. Do I need to remove the whole caliper housing from the disc by unscrewing the 2 bolts on the rear of it to get the pads out? I am very new to this but don't remember that being the case on my mini. If not, how do I retract the pistons? I whacked the pads a bit with a hammer and pried them with a screwdriver, but that felt intuitively wrong.

Its slightly better now, but not ideal

Thanks
 
I'm going to replace the pads next week. Does anyone have any experience with these
guys

seems like a pretty good deal and he assures me they will fit an 89 S2

Any advice on this or a better place to get them much appreciated

Cheers
 
Those seem very low-priced

I have no knowledge of this eBay supplier and have no criticism to make but would merely point out that brake pads are one of the most commonly counterfeited car parts, and any Google search on the subject will show you that there are large numbers of counterfeit brake components floating around Europe and the USA, not just the third world. Incidentally this is a problem for aviation as well as the automotive world. It is possible that such components are in some cases being sold in good faith by people who don;t know they are fake.

For that reason I only ever buy safety-critical components from organisations I know, and whose supply chains I can be sure of.
 
Thanks for the reply. They do seem rather cheap. Maybe I should go for the porsche shop ones

http://www.porscheshop.co.uk/acatalog/porsche_944_brake_components.html

I think I need the the £50 ones. Unless anyone has any other cheaper sources I could get them from?

Cheers
 
it might be a case to have the calipers rebuilt.

There is a place in Chester that does them for decent money I am sure they are well known about the forums there was a chat going on about them on www.912register.co.uk on their forum.. I recently used them but I total forget the name of the company but it is listed there..

 
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