14 hours ago, Eng_Ahmad1986 said:

well you said that you removed the caliper and spun the disc and there is a slight resistance from the bearing, as far as I know there shouldn't be any detectable resistance in a good working wheel bearing, do you hear any whine while on the road that increases with increasing speed ? and also you can test the bearing by jacking up that side of the car and spin the wheel as fast as you can while putting the other hand on the coil spring, if the bearing is bad you should feel some kind of Buzz/ vibration on the coil spring, I highly suspect the wheel bearing to be causing all this as @Bobr mentioned.

Just too update, I think it is all sorted now, the back on the pad that clips into the piston wasn't sitting flush with the face of the piston for some strange reason so the inner part of the pad was rubbing the disc. I fitting an anti squeal adhesive sheet too the back of the pad and this had made it sit flush with the piston face so there is not more rubbing on the disc. The wheel spins much more freely and the temperatures are pretty much the same at the front now. Hopefully the problem doesn't reappear because it has driven me mad. Will update after a couple of days too see if it has fixed it for good. 

Good news , happy to hear that it is now fixed 🙂 

1 minute ago, Eng_Ahmad1986 said:

Good news , happy to hear that it is now fixed 🙂 

Cheers for everyone's help, fingers crossed that has fixed it 😂

Just too update, what I did seems to have made a massive difference and the brakes feel a lot better now and bite very well. The outer pad is still slightly dragging so it it scraping the disc very slightly. When I release the brakes, the outer pad doesn't seem too move away from the rotor but the caliper is moving freely. Could I use double sided tape on the outer pad too stick it against the caliper so it moves with the caliper when the brakes are released? 

Cheers 

On 6/1/2021 at 2:14 PM, Arkhangelsk1989 said:

fitting an anti squeal adhesive sheet too the back of the pad

👍 good move

6 minutes ago, Arkhangelsk1989 said:

Could I use double sided tape on the outer pad too stick it against the caliper

👎 No, not unless you can find tape to withstand 300C and is water proof.

I would expect if everything is moving freely then after a few hundred miles the Pads and calipers will bed in and all will be fine. I suspect you are now over thinking the problem.

3 minutes ago, unofix said:

👍 good move

👎 No, not unless you can find tape to withstand 300C and is water proof.

I would expect if everything is moving freely then after a few hundred miles the Pads and calipers will bed in and all will be fine. I suspect you are now over thinking the problem.

Fair enough 👍🏻. There is still a slight temperature difference but after a long drive without much braking the discs are only slightly warm and don't burn your fingers. I always seem too overthink stuff but just want too make sure that my car is safe too be on the road. Not a bad thing but it drives me crazy 😂🤯. 

Is there anything I can put on the back of the pad too aid it away from the disc when the brakes are released? 

No. Disc brakes have been fitted to vehicles since the early 1950s. None of the hundreds of millions of them have needed it.

The wheel seems to spin nice and freely now with only a slight scraping sound from the brake but I can get the wheel moving very easily. One quick question. I noticed that after driving for around 20 mins in stop start traffic and some fairly hard braking from 40-0 mph. I got home and both front alloys were fairly hot too the touch. I can only touch them for about 5 seconds before it starts too be uncomfortable. I jacked both sides up and both wheels spin freely. Is this normal? The weather has also been around 25 degrees celsius today so if that makes an impact then fair enough? 

100% normal. You need to get a hobby - Train Spotting? 

6 minutes ago, unofix said:

100% normal. You need to get a hobby - Train Spotting? 

Funny 🤔😂

You know how brakes work right?  They turn the kinetic rotational force into heat...that's a lot of force to get rid of stopping a tonne of car from 40mph.    That heat gets transferred from the disc to the air, partly via the alloy...  All perfectly normal as above.  Most people just don't go around poking their brake discs.

 

7 minutes ago, TomsFocus said:

You know how brakes work right?  They turn the kinetic rotational force into heat...that's a lot of force to get rid of stopping a tonne of car from 40mph.    That heat gets transferred from the disc to the air, partly via the alloy...  All perfectly normal as above.  Most people just don't go around poking their brake discs.

 

Fair enough, thanks for the help 👍🏻😁