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Hey guys, about a week ago I noticed a slight grind from the rear passenger brake when slowing down slowly, gradually over a few days this got worse and more frequent, i also noticed a slight squeek from that same wheel while driving. I had just put 17"s on and thought it might have something to do with that. But then yesterday the grinding all of a sudden was much worse, louder, longer and more frequent. Then today it's incredibly loud and happens when ever I brake.

Had a look at the brakes and rotors, rotor has a lot of fresh scrapes that feel rough when i run my fingers over them.

Now I don't know much about cars, less about brakes. But it looks like the rear passenger has no brake pad where as the rear driver appears to have a 2-3mm. Needless to say I'm not driving it at all atm, but today I'll ring around to get it fixed.

Can anyone tell me how big of a job this is likely to be? Ball park costs? Anything else it might be? Suggestions of a good place to get it fixed in Adelaide?

Thanx guys ^_^

>>Sam

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It's not unusual for brake pads to wear at different rates. Get the car to any good mechanic to have new pads installed. You might even be able to find a mobile mechanic to come to you - check Yellow Pages.

Hey mate I once got a little rock stuck between the end of the pad and rotor that mad a horrible sound as well as scratch the sh#t out of my rotor! Have a look around to see if anything is stuck, but that just scratched the top part of the rotor as the wheel was spinning. It does sound like you have minimal amount of pad left.

As far as cost goes, you can get pretty cheap pads or spend a little more for "better" ones. They will need to machine your rotors aswell. They shouldnt charge you more than about $300-$400 for all 4 pads, rotors machined, new fluid and labour, I wouldnt think.....

Places (in SA) charge a shit load to remove and machine discs, if you take them off yourself it's normally around 29-39 bucks a disc.

Hit up gsl rally sports, iirc it was $120 for an axle's worth of qfm a1rm brake pads. Should be able to get the whole lot in for under $220ish.

Places (in SA) charge a shit load to remove and machine discs, if you take them off yourself it's normally around 29-39 bucks a disc.

Hit up gsl rally sports, iirc it was $120 for an axle's worth of qfm a1rm brake pads. Should be able to get the whole lot in for under $220ish.

I wouldn't know how to, and if I did I wouldn't be able to drive to GSL :)

Midas pt adelaide is 30 seconds from my house so I think even if they were charging a shit load more I would still have to go there to minimize more damage :laugh:

Im about done with my Skyline, second set of speakers melted today on a 30 degree day..

Nothing is simple with this skyline, nothing at all...

Hey Sam, if u want, i can change the pads for u and organise the rotors to be machined to. Done heaps of changes on cars if u dont mind. Just pay for the new pads, machining and $50 to me and i'll do it.

Hey Sam, if u want, i can change the pads for u and organise the rotors to be machined to. Done heaps of changes on cars if u dont mind. Just pay for the new pads, machining and $50 to me and i'll do it.

Hey-ho Luke thanx a lot man, i already got them done at Midas. Was pretty urgent and Midas pt adelaide was seriously a 1 minute drive from my house ^_^ $139 wasn't to bad for rear brakes I don't think :ninja: Rotor didn't need machining so I was a happy chappy cuz I had my $20 left for dinner that night LOL!

New problem, damaged my rear shelf putting it back in with speakers so one speaker sags, its terminals touch the body of the car which seems to be causing static and makes the cd player cut out lol..

wtb in tact rear shelf in SA ^_^

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