only to me
- Thread starter dyzfr6
- Start date
HR radness
His royal radness
My fix took 3 minutes and costs .10
bubba suby
New member
some times that noise is coming from the two tabs that go down into the dash from the a-piller molding. pull the a-piller molding off and put some tape around the tabs and reinstall the molding and test drive it. this has fixed some of the nosies for mein the past.
what pads are you running?
any other brake mods we should know about?
do you recall any particularly hard braking episodes before brakes started acting weird? you could have glazed tha pads, tho they'd be smoking hot and hopefully you'd have seen or remember this. like a track day or hard ax sessions, etc
how about things you might have done to wheels/tires that could mechanically/chemically affect grip of the brake pads...like overspray from tire foam, too much nevr-seiz on wheel studs/lugnutz, caliper grease smooshed everywhere, etc??
did brakes feel like they just weren't grabbing at first, then they grabbed better (wet brakes can sometimes have a moment of "no effin brake" feel, then pads skim water off and they hold fine)
or were the tires just sliding (hydroplaning) and maybe you felt like brakes weren't doing their thing? stis have wicked fat tires and it doesn't take much standing water on the road for them to feel pretty slippy. do you remember road/weather conditions when you felt like brakes weren't working right?
don't mean to grill you like a cop, but doing automotive detective works often means lots o questions....
any other brake mods we should know about?
do you recall any particularly hard braking episodes before brakes started acting weird? you could have glazed tha pads, tho they'd be smoking hot and hopefully you'd have seen or remember this. like a track day or hard ax sessions, etc
how about things you might have done to wheels/tires that could mechanically/chemically affect grip of the brake pads...like overspray from tire foam, too much nevr-seiz on wheel studs/lugnutz, caliper grease smooshed everywhere, etc??
did brakes feel like they just weren't grabbing at first, then they grabbed better (wet brakes can sometimes have a moment of "no effin brake" feel, then pads skim water off and they hold fine)
or were the tires just sliding (hydroplaning) and maybe you felt like brakes weren't doing their thing? stis have wicked fat tires and it doesn't take much standing water on the road for them to feel pretty slippy. do you remember road/weather conditions when you felt like brakes weren't working right?
don't mean to grill you like a cop, but doing automotive detective works often means lots o questions....
stock pads, only 10000 miles, it started when it was getting colder and never really went away, and in water it is much worse. they always gring first thing in the morning, nature of the beast so i am told. i dont have the money to get new pads. i am gonna have patriot look at it one more time, then if nothing, i am gonna dig in. never neverseised the wheels, never tirefoamed, never took off calipers. hope that helps. any more helpo would be kool.
grinding in the morning is just a light coat of surface rust coming off... mine always had a slight grind/friction sound at all times. Just a byproduct of big ass pads and caliper to my mind so I didn't worry about it.
I really dunno what's going on with the cold/wet situation though. :-
I really dunno what's going on with the cold/wet situation though. :-
Pedro
٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶
it doesn't take much to pooch a set of pads. and with that much surface area the pads never get hot unless you are doing 80-20 runs on the highway.
I would suggest giving it a good set of 10-15 runs from 60-20 or whatever is "legal" or won't get you in trouble. the pads may need to be re-bedded. give it that and see how it goes.
I would suggest giving it a good set of 10-15 runs from 60-20 or whatever is "legal" or won't get you in trouble. the pads may need to be re-bedded. give it that and see how it goes.
