Loud grinding noise when I brake.

Bigwheels1111

Wow, that seems steep.
I will only fit quality pads, Textar or Ate, £80-100 for pads.
My mechanic is £60 and hour inc vat.
With a strip down and clean of everything including the hangers and fitting brakes £90.
So a rear exhaust part and fitting over £300 is steep.

Ganga

Goudy said:

Most modern cars will have some sort of brake pad wear warnings on them.

Some have an electrical circuit that once the pads wears below a certain level, it makes contact and lights up a warning on the dash.

Or more commonly

An acoustic wear warning.
These are little metal tangs attached to the brake pads that touch the disc and make a scrapping or grinding sound once the pads wear down to a low enough level (2mm).

Brake pad wear indicator | HELLA PAGID

Brakes squeal is usually the brake pads vibrating in the brake caliper.
Brake dust and rust tend to cause the normal caliper movement to gum up and the pads start to shimmy with a high frequency and squeal.
A good clean up and a proper lube of the correct parts with brake grease (not normal grease, that burns) usually sorts it out.

You can sometimes hear brakes hum, particularly in reverse with rear discs.
Again it's rust and crud gumming them up but as the rear brakes only do 30% or so of the stopping, they don't get as hot as the fronts, so tend to show up these sorts of problems first.

My colleague has just walked in to the office as I'm writing this.
She's moaning her Yaris Hybrid had to have pads and disc all around yesterday.
The rears were original with 150k on them, but they hadn't worn away as much as rotted away!

They do not make parts today like they used to 

JadeHighland

macman said:

JadeHighland said:

Turns out both brake pads were worn, along with there being a hole in the exhaust pipe. Nice £500 to fix it just before Christmas!

How much?
Who quoted you that?

The garage!

JadeHighland

Bigwheels1111 said:

Wow, that seems steep.
I will only fit quality pads, Textar or Ate, £80-100 for pads.
My mechanic is £60 and hour inc vat.
With a strip down and clean of everything including the hangers and fitting brakes £90.
So a rear exhaust part and fitting over £300 is steep.

Thanks for this. At least I know not to use them next time. Is that £100 for each pad?

Are you saying £200 for both pads, £90 for labour? What about the exhaust? 

Bigwheels1111

JadeHighland said:

Bigwheels1111 said:

Wow, that seems steep.
I will only fit quality pads, Textar or Ate, £80-100 for pads.
My mechanic is £60 and hour inc vat.
With a strip down and clean of everything including the hangers and fitting brakes £90.
So a rear exhaust part and fitting over £300 is steep.

Thanks for this. At least I know not to use them next time. Is that £100 for each pad?

Are you saying £200 for both pads, £90 for labour? What about the exhaust? 

No, there are lots of brands out there.
Brembo, Ebc, Bosch, Lucas etc.
But from many years driving I’ve found that if you buy quality pads they last longer.
Textar are hard to find and quite expensive.
Between £40-£60 each set. Front & back, max around £120 plus fitting.
Toyota fit Textar as standard, Printed with Toyota in big letters and made by Textar in small print.
Use this link to find your pads for next time.
 https://brakebook.com/bb/textar/en/applicationSearch.xhtml

Also main dealers can give a good price at times.
For my Peugeot it’s the same price almost, Looking at the brake pad it says TRW.

https://www.yeomans.co.uk/peugeot/servicing-parts/10-most-common-repairs/

https://www.trwaftermarket.com/en/passenger-cars-and-lcv/disc-brake-systems/brake-pads/

https://tmdfriction.com/

Look at the bottom of the page.

Look at the air filter as an example of Peugeot and Citroen part.
Made by Mann

Ibrahim5

In the old days people used to go to the main dealers for 'genuine' parts. It's now clear that you can get the same parts much cheaper, but not in 'genuine' boxes. I haven't bought any parts from main dealers for years. They are now irrelevant.

leinten

When mine did similar it turned out the whole thing was toast. Warped discs and ruined pads as the callipers had seized on. Can’t remember the bill but it was eye watering!!!