put some petrol in the car earlier and as i moved off the forecourt i heard a grinding (think exhaust pipe dragging) so pulled over and looked under the car. nothing hanging down so i drove around the garage (it has a truck stop area) and there was a grinding from what sounds like the front passenger side wheel. this has recently had its bearing changed. anyway drove home (5 miles at mostly national limit) and got onto my track/drive/mud i let it drag itself along in 1st and listened. no noise. went to reverse it onto some less muddy paving slabs and the grinding came back with avengence. worse on lock but generally sounds wretched. its only half light so i checked it with a torch and there is lots of life left in the outside of the pad and the disc is not noticably cracked.

any ideas what this could be? initial thoughts are a stone caught up in the guard or nothing left of the inside of the pad (although this seems unlikely).

conversely it could be the rear (drum) brake having nothing left on it but the brakes seem fine and the handbrake is ok.

thoughts?

cheers

toby

go to page 12. meaty 101 posted this is a spring that can be bought from dealerf or 12 quid. saying page 12 might be 13 or 14 when you look. or just quick search"rear break squeal fix"

hmmm, i don't have rear discs though.

i'll take the fronts apart and have a look around. i suspect a stone given various other forums/cars symptoms and that it gets worse when i swap between forward and reverse leads me to +1 this.

thanks all the same for looking.

cheers

toby

took the front passenger side apart and there wasn't anything amiss. the disc was was as year old ATE disc might look - no abnormal scoring or anything. plenty of pad left. there was a fair amount of muck so i cleaned that up and re assembled with copper grease in all the normal places. drove off and the noise had gone no idea. i suspect a stone as before but it may have fallen out whilst i took it apart.

since i had all the tools and whatnot out i took the drums off and there was more brake dust and muck than i'd seen in one place before. cleaned it all up and sanded a little off the shoes to give a cleaner face. put it all back together and the slight brake noise it use to give is much diminished. handbrake works fine on a steepish hill.

as an aside i've seen that the lug nuts should be 130nm - can anyone verify this?

and

i used the jacking points listed in the sticky for my axle stands and jacked up on the subframe mounting point for the front and the bottom of the damper assembly at the back. are these points safe for jacking? the skoda guide is all well and good but there isn't enough space to both jack and axle stand in the listed area?

Edited 23 January, 201115 yr by toby