MK5 Golf GTI

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Title: Clicking from the front brakes
Post by: rich83 on March 14, 2011, 05:58:11 pm
Just started to happen recently.... if i'm driving slowly forward and apply the brakes the i get a metallic clicking noise (bit like the sound when your engine is cooling down) It also does the same in reverse. Could it be the carrier pins are knack'd?
Title: Re: Clicking from the front brakes
Post by: Truckie on March 14, 2011, 07:25:15 pm
Had the same when i was running standard brake set up. It is still slightly there but nowhere near as prominent. Its just the pads moving from there possition, nothing to worry about.
 If it helps our Ferrari 360 did the same when we ran Mintex. (Doesnt do it now with other brand of pads  :wink: )
Title: Re: Clicking from the front brakes
Post by: rich83 on March 14, 2011, 07:28:26 pm
Thanks for that truckie!  :smiley:
Title: Re: Clicking from the front brakes
Post by: Truckie on March 14, 2011, 07:31:16 pm
No worries mate. It was even worse when the car was put away wet, left for a few days then driven out the workshop, brutal clunk when it finally free'd off  :ashamed:
Title: Re: Clicking from the front brakes
Post by: Beddie on March 14, 2011, 09:29:55 pm
Just started to happen recently.... if i'm driving slowly forward and apply the brakes the i get a metallic clicking noise (bit like the sound when your engine is cooling down) It also does the same in reverse. Could it be the carrier pins are knack'd?

Take car out. Drive it like you stole it. Go back home only after <18mpg and the smell of hot brakes start to make you sick. Revel in your now quiet brakes.   - Italian de-glaze. done   :grin:
Title: Re: Clicking from the front brakes
Post by: Hedge on March 14, 2011, 10:53:09 pm
& Italian tune up all in the same session.  :laugh:
Title: Re: Clicking from the front brakes
Post by: rich83 on March 15, 2011, 12:08:45 am
Hmm.. not sure that its glazed brakes, but ill give it a tw@ting on the way to get my tryes fitting in the morning and see what happens  :driver:
Title: Re: Clicking from the front brakes
Post by: rich83 on March 15, 2011, 05:58:59 pm
Hmmpft... still clicking/cracking!