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Loud scraping from front brake

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Tetris Keyring

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Hi all. Had an issue with my drivers side front brake today and wonder if anyone had any insight.

Bit of background, I’d be driving for a few hours in the Yorkshire Dales. Fairly spirited but not that hard and plenty of slower bits.
Out of the blue, the drives side front brake started to make a horrible scraping metallic sound. Very loud. The brake was also squeaking loudly even when not pressed. At first, I thought it must be something dragging on the ground or stuck in the wheel/brake. The brakes themselves worked fine.

Pulled over for 30 mins to let everything cool down (although not that hot) but didn’t make a difference. Nothing visible to see and it was far worse when going forward. Anyway, I was in the middle of nowhere about an hour from home so set of cautiously and after about 10 mins the noise just stopped. Checked the car again and couldn't see anything and nothing in the road to indicate something had fallen out. Drove normally the rest of the way home and a bit spirited at points and it was absolutely fine. No return of the sound.

I read a similar thread about stones getting stuck in the brake and wondered if it was this?

It‘s going into the OPC next Friday for this recall (grill replacement) so I’ll get it checked but wondered if anyone had/heard of this before?

Thanks

Kerry
 
carnaby35 said:
Got to be something stuck in there temporarily which has now gone. By the way it’s BRAKE. 😀
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That's a shocking schoolboy error

I'm not wearing my glasses so can hardly see the screen so blaming it on that :)

 
Kerry,

As noted, most probably just a stone trapped between the disc and caliper which eventually dislodged itself. Often the best thing to do is drive in reverse for a short distance. Something to bear in mind if it happens again.

Presumably there’s plenty of meat on the pads?

Jeff

 
Happened to me a few times as well. Sorted every time by stopping and reversing a few metres! Certainly isn't a nice sound though...

 
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