Dan04COBRA

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Agreed...I think someone at that dealership either knew it was about to break, or someone there had a fun time test driving your car and someone at the dealership found out <IMG src=smileys/smiley3.gif border="0"></P>

USAMuscle

No crap, I can tell you from experience man, Ford garages are notorious for being imbeciles. I had a rattling noise coming from my front brakes not too long after I bought my '96, and the Ford garage said "It's just the suspension settling." Well since the car had almost 60,000 miles on it, it seemed a little odd to me that it was "settling" which is BS in the first place. So I found out from my own research that the anti-rattle clips were missing from the front calipers...needless to say that was the last time I took my car into a Ford garage.</P>

mylounge

YIKES!!!!!
Now I'm really anxious to talk with the tech doing the work. This is my first forray into a Ford service center. I have an Excursion has yet to need service of any kind. My other cars are British.....both Ford products, but I do all the work on them myself. I'm not sure of the front end set-up, so I don't know if axles are a week point on these cars, or if its a correct diagnosis. It was out of incorrect fixes at the British dealers that I started to do the work myself. Maybe I'll start with this one too.

Gary
02 GT

KimberlyGT

I've noticed that on my 02.. after I wash my car, the brakes make a grinding sound.. but only in reverse. <IMG src=smileys/smiley5.gif border="0">

mdvaldosta

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vfast

that's odd ..brake dust gets on the rotor and squeal but after washing it will go away.. but washing it an it appears is odd...some times a disc break will crystalize and cauase a squeal, some times you get a hair line crack in them...
a warpped rotor will get your pedal moving up & down but not a squeal..
just when washing a car watch out when spraying cold water on a hot rotor....

mylounge

An update....

Dealer said the noise was caused by a bent REAR axle. They've had my car 2 weeks, first replacing the axle with the WRONG one, and then replacing it with another bent one? Thats just wonderful.

mdvaldosta

that sucks, how'd you bend an axle?

mylounge

All I know is that I wash my car on Sunday, drive it to work the next morning and by the time I get there the brakes are making noise. I thought it was a result of something I had done during washing or waxing....but the dealer says the axle was bent. How it happened, I'll never know....or even it that was REALLY the correct diagnosis.

Gary
02GT