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Re: Pads rattling?
Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 8:09 pm
by tut
Pagid 14's go through a rattling stage with every set that I have put on. OK at first, rattle for quite a while, then settle down again.
Normal way to check is light pressure on the brake pedal and the rattle will go.
tut
Re: Pads rattling?
Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 9:38 pm
by Gourlay83
The calipers have shim/buffers. Buy them in a set from your Lotus Dealer. Put as many or as little to take up the play of the pad. Just make sure they still move free
Used them on mine and worked a treat.
Alan
Re: Pads rattling?
Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 10:02 pm
by roadboy
Paul doesn't have a Lotus Alan. Unless I've missed something.
You can't always move the pads by hand but they may still rattle.
Wouldn't have thought it was the wheel as that would rattle all the time and stop when you braked.
Dan
Re: Pads rattling?
Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 10:38 pm
by Gourlay83
Sorry Paul, Assumed you had a Lotus.
Re: Pads rattling?
Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 8:38 am
by robin
Paul.A wrote:I miss not owning an Elise
So do I
Re: Pads rattling?
Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 8:39 am
by tut
Que?
tut
Re: Pads rattling?
Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 9:13 am
by RDH
robin wrote:Paul.A wrote:I miss not owning an Elise
So do I
Me too!
Re: Pads rattling?
Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 9:39 am
by roadboy
Lol!
I am quite enjoying not owning one as it happens.
Dan
Re: Pads rattling?
Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 10:24 am
by tut
Just read shooomers again. Was getting quite confused there, think I need to go and lie down in a blacked out room.
tut
Re: Pads rattling?
Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 12:22 pm
by meatball
Are the pads held in place by pins?
Re: Pads rattling?
Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 2:13 pm
by gdr
Wheel nuts still tight? I have had that problem before
Re: Pads rattling?
Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 7:43 pm
by meatball
Paul.A wrote:Yeah
Do the pins rattle?
Re: Pads rattling?
Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 12:45 pm
by steve_weegie
Paul, i recently saw a similar problem where the pad was moving about in the caliper and making a clunking noise, caused by a small high spot on the disk. If the noise goes away with the application of the brakes, i'd suspect the same.
I'd try fitting anti-rattle pads to the contact points between the pad and caliper.
Re: Pads rattling?
Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 1:14 pm
by j2 lot
steve_weegie wrote:Paul, i recently saw a similar problem where the pad was moving about in the caliper and making a clunking noise, caused by a small high spot on the disk.
... and I never thanked you for your assistance in sorting it.
I have also sorted the 'chirp' that was annoying me and was present on all of the Elises I have owned too, a small piece of rubber hose wrapped around the handbrake cable at each side where it passes through the metal 'hanger' which holds it in place -easy fix and all rattles sorted
although it is a Lotus so I'm sure another one will be along soon
Re: Pads rattling?
Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 6:57 pm
by Neil72
An Aston owner doing DIY spannering ?
Can't you get the butler to take a look at it ?