Been having some noise issues with the front brakes on our 2008 Matrix.
About 18 months ago, I put new rotors and pads on from Advance Auto. Both made in china, both their gold line, whatever that means.
I bed them in from instructions I found on the internet.
I get some groaning sounds maybe a little grinding from the front brakes, and it is annoying.
Brakes grab great, stops fine.
I'm trying to figure if there is some pad material stuck on the rotors, causing this noise.
Caliper slides are all moving fine, I replaced all the rubber and the pins were greased up properly with silglyde. All the ears of the pads and the back of the pads were greased with high temp brake pad lube.
If I am going to take it apart, I'm going to replace everything again.
I purchased a set of semi metallic pads and rotors and will be putting those on next week.
I wonder if those ceramic pads are too aggressive for the rotors, and for this car.
I didn't have time to get to a parts store, so I went to ebay. This part seemed to have decent ratings. I hope it is higher quality than what I get in the generic box from advance.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/111623985665?_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
About 18 months ago, I put new rotors and pads on from Advance Auto. Both made in china, both their gold line, whatever that means.
I bed them in from instructions I found on the internet.
I get some groaning sounds maybe a little grinding from the front brakes, and it is annoying.
Brakes grab great, stops fine.
I'm trying to figure if there is some pad material stuck on the rotors, causing this noise.
Caliper slides are all moving fine, I replaced all the rubber and the pins were greased up properly with silglyde. All the ears of the pads and the back of the pads were greased with high temp brake pad lube.
If I am going to take it apart, I'm going to replace everything again.
I purchased a set of semi metallic pads and rotors and will be putting those on next week.
I wonder if those ceramic pads are too aggressive for the rotors, and for this car.
I didn't have time to get to a parts store, so I went to ebay. This part seemed to have decent ratings. I hope it is higher quality than what I get in the generic box from advance.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/111623985665?_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT