john w 0 Posted March 11, 2007 Report Share Posted March 11, 2007 the black diamond combi disks and preditor pads are now on my vr, but im now getting a scraping sound, in the haynes manual it said that new pads should be 14mm thik including back plate, i have sanded the top layer of the pads of but they remain about 18-20mm thik, so i think there scrapin the pads as im driving, will this cause any problems or will they ware down to the corect width them selvs, sould i file them down to the correct width? Link to post Share on other sites
cabrioman 6 Posted March 11, 2007 Report Share Posted March 11, 2007 u sure the discs aint catchin the back plates ... they should ware down but mite take a while ur lookin about 20,000 miles if not more for a set of pads to wear out... can u trun the wheel freely when its jacked up if not the then barkes are stickin on and they will get very hot very fast a bugger the brakes and possibly get brake fade which is not good Link to post Share on other sites
john w 0 Posted March 11, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 11, 2007 iv jacked the car up and the wheels turn freely it was still makin a scrapin noise on the passanger side , there was like a thin disk behing the acutal break disk and a tinr bit was tuchin...iv bent the thin disk back so no more noise....the pads have abut a 1mm between them and the disk..happy happy joy joy Link to post Share on other sites
kalv 0 Posted March 12, 2007 Report Share Posted March 12, 2007 Thats the brake disc shield... had to bend mine back.. usually catches on full lock.. Link to post Share on other sites
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