Just been fortunate enough to be abroad for 3 weeks. Picked up my car from the long stay Gatwick last night and the brakes are suddenly really noisy / juddery.

The car is running fine; just the brakes when they are applied. Not sure what the weather has been like in the 3 weeks to have caused this.

Although I've done about 50 miles since, still not eased off much.

Any ideas, thoughts, suggestions to fix would be appreciated. Model is vRS, 2009.

Thanks.

Sounds like heavy surface rust on the discs,some stop start driving should clean them up.

I find a few hundred yards with the foot on the brake pedal at about 30 mph normally does the trick

Regards all

John

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Was the hand brake left on when you were away or was it left in gear?

Was the hand brake left on when you were away or was it left in gear?

That is a key question. I almost never use the handbrake when parking up for any length of time to avoid that very problem especially when the roads are salted.

Thanks for the initial replies. And yes, the handbrake was applied - force of habit (but will bear that in mind next time around).

Thanks for the initial replies. And yes, the handbrake was applied - force of habit (but will bear that in mind next time around).

It will probably just be a build up of crap on the surface of the disk then. Go and find an empty straight back road that you can get up to 60 mph on and once you have reached 60 brake firmly until at a stop. Repeat this 10 times, braking harder every time without getting the ABS to kick in, and any build up of crap on the disk should be gone. You will need to accelerate quite briskly between attempts to get the temperature of the disk up which should help break the curd up and make it easier to come off.

If this doesn't work then i'm not sure what will but i remember a thread on here just a few of days ago where there were some people on about using brake disc cleaner for bikes on their discs for some reason. I'll have a look for it but i can't remember what section it was in. Before you go using brake cleaner on your disks i would defiantly find the thread to have a read of it. Apart from that i can't think of any other way to solve your problem apart from changing the disks (you may as well change the pads while your at it)

Happened to my 2013 vRS after being sat outside for 8 days, they graunched for a good 20/30 miles before settling down. From what ive noticed the disc surfaces seem to corrode quite quickly when left standing for a period of time, just takes a little while for the pads to burn the crud off the disc surfaces.

Sounds like i'm going to have fun when i get back to the uk at the end of the month after 5 weeks away and the car not moving. At least the handbrake is off and its parked in gear so hopefully it won't be to bad.