Obsidian71

hhhmmmm...whats that grinding noise when I step on my brakes???

Apparently I waited a bit too long to do the front pads on my '00....
oops!
This ones going on the wall of shame

02GTman

My drivers front was worse than that before I changed them.......shame on me!

smitty2919

How do you guys not notice this??? It took a noise to notice it, not even a loss in braking power first?

There is a thing called general maintenance and check-ups....

Obsidian71

I regularly check the thickness of my pads when I check tire pressure, rotate tires, and when I'm washing it I always check while I'm cleaning the wheels...my rears started squeaking a bit and I changed them 2 weeks ago. Believe it or not, the fronts didn't make any squeaks or grinds until about 3 days ago, and the outer pads still had PLENTY of meat on them, so I never thought to check the inners till there was a light coating of rust on my wheel after it rained the other day and I knew metal was coming from somewhere cuz aluminum wheels don't rust...took the wheels off and found this! I was quite shocked it didn't make more noise, and I never really noticed a significant drop in braking power... I'm usually more on top of things...

fastbackford351

Man, that had to be close to showering the highway with sparks.

Which reminds me, it has been a while since I have laid eyeballs on my inside pads too.

MythEyeLess

LOL wow, your rotor must be all warped by now.

Obsidian71

hahaha! Rotor! let's just say it's a good thing I had an extra set of factory Ford rotors in my basement that I've been using for mock-up on my '71 project that were in really good shape I got off a parts car a while back...

uberstang1

How could you even let that get that bad, it had to be grinding and making all kidns of noises for a while before it got to that point, time to go for a hearing check.

mineralpony

Those things are worn down so bad haha. What pads did you get?

Obsidian71

Just got regular duralast ceramic pads...don't need anything too fancy.