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Hi all,
just a quick question, the attached pictures are from my Hyundai. I recently took the car in for an MOT and it passed with no advisories. Couple weeks later I went to a different garage for a handbrake cable supplying/fitting. They told me both rear brake discs were worn and needed replacing. Just wondering what the general consensus is here as to the extent they actually needed replacing (i.e. definitely, maybe, not at all). It just confused me that it passed it's MOT two weeks prior.
Thanks,
Fruitmousse.

Those rotors are severely rust pitted and yes, they would have to be replaced.

In the future could you please reduce the size of your pictures? It makes the whole thread hard to read.

See this all the time in rusty New England.
Note the inside where pad or what's left of them isn't touching
entire rotor. That's a problem on top of just tossing rotors and pads
strongly suggesting you'll need calipers as well and might just as well do
flex hoses while spending the money for the full job.
MOT if brakes worked with their testing methods could either miss this
or they really worked well enough? Old, rusted where it really doesn't count, grooves if true you don't feel
and still work.


You just can't undo rust or add metal to refurbish rotors and some calipers, brackets can be too far gone as well.


Expect this to be costly but accidents are lots worse so it has to be done. Brakes this bad are subject to surprise lock ups or loss of braking power at all, all at once!


T

Year of vehicle - 2001
Make of vehicle - Ford
Model of vehicle - Fiesta

Hiya im new here and have a two questions.

1. I was driving today and heard a scraping noise when I was turning right at above 20mph. It seems to happen when I go round big roundabouts because you can go faster on them, haven't noticed it on the smaller ones. The noise seems to be coming for the left front side of the car. I've not had the car lowered or anything so I don't think its coming from the body work of the car.

2. After hearing the scraping noise I looked at the left side of the car and noticed a scrape all the way round the left brake disc(I've added a picture at the bottom). Had a look at the right brake disc and it looked fine. (Failed mot on brake discs January this year, Got them replaced.)

Question: Is this normal, im sure when it failed mot the mechanic said scraped brake disc's.(I am a girl and don't really know that much about cars, I know the basics). Anyway it could be nothing but any advice would be great.

Thanks

Left (Scraped one)



Right (Normal one)

?? Are these pics of brakes that were new in January this year? The noise and groove suggests a flaw in the new brake pad, rotor may not have been machined or replaced, or perhaps debris like a small stone or something has lodged in between making both a noise and that mark.

Sorry about more questions than answers for the moment but some markings of the sort are normal over the life of brakes and usually don't impair their performance but should not be making noise. So what was it failed for? Was it just seeing that that failed it and all other aspects are fine?

To find the root of this I'd have the pads removed for close up inspection of the friction surface of the pad which can't be seen while installed which would likely explain why that mark is there and probably the source of the noise.

How many miles are on the brakes in the pictures from known good? The noise concerns me more than the appearance of those rotors with part worn brakes at the moment,

T

Hi thank you for replying. Yes they were replaced January 2008, only done about 3k on them. That car failed for brake disc's and suspension (bush's?).

Do you think it would fail the mot next year again with those brake disc's?


Again thank you for replying.

Thank you for all the information I really appreciate it. Sorry about the MOT thing, it just means the car has to pass all safety tests and tyres every year to be able to be driven on the road.

Im going to get my uncle to have a look at the brakes for me soon. I'll post to let you all know what he says.

Thanks again

Ok - cool. Here it's just called an inspection sticker issued by the state. Not passing any safety item whatsoever means the car isn't legal to drive out of the place even! They do a grace period for certain levels of emission failures for time to bring them up to par.

I get the drift of what these inspections are but can't know the impact to you exactly. For what I see with your brakes I wouldn't be happy to say it's illegal to drive it quite so fast,

T

Hi, I need to change the front brake discs on a Citroen Picasso, 1.8 petrol engine, year of registration 2002. Can anyone advise on the size of the Torx Bit to fit the brake caliper bolts please?

Thanks for your time

Regards


daytimedaddy

I'm not familar with this model but I believe it takes a T-30 bit..........

Thanks for that

I have a 2001 Renault laguna dci and i have humming coming from the front .I have changed the front bearings, drop links, bull joints and driveshaft gaiters but the humming is still there .Anyone got any ideas ?

I have not had chance yet the brake discs and pads are new.The noise is when i am driving only.