Hi all,

I bought a 13 plate titanium fiesta with the 125bhp ecoboost 1.0 engine back in August. Love the car and power available from such a small unit. Having one gripe with the car though the brakes, namely the front make a type of grinding noise when coming to a halt. The same sort of noise when the discs have surface rust and you first drive off. The car was presumably sat on a forcourt for the best part of three months so had minimal movement till i purchased it in August. It passed its first MOT with no advisories at all and rightly so for a 3 year old car having only done just over 10k.

 

Anyway back to the brakes ive had both the front wheels off and apart from a slight lip on the disc each side I cant see anything obvious. Both sets of pads each side have plenty of meat left on them too. Under braking the car is fine, no juddering or pulling and gives me full confidence its just an annoyance more than anything. Ive heard brakes can glaze over time, what exactly is this. Im in two minds to just bite the bullet and get some new pads and discs off euro car parts and put them on myself.

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

 

Cheers

Craig

36 minutes ago, craig7787 said:

Hi all,

I bought a 13 plate titanium fiesta with the 125bhp ecoboost 1.0 engine back in August. Love the car and power available from such a small unit. Having one gripe with the car though the brakes, namely the front make a type of grinding noise when coming to a halt. The same sort of noise when the discs have surface rust and you first drive off. The car was presumably sat on a forcourt for the best part of three months so had minimal movement till i purchased it in August. It passed its first MOT with no advisories at all and rightly so for a 3 year old car having only done just over 10k.

 

Anyway back to the brakes ive had both the front wheels off and apart from a slight lip on the disc each side I cant see anything obvious. Both sets of pads each side have plenty of meat left on them too. Under braking the car is fine, no juddering or pulling and gives me full confidence its just an annoyance more than anything. Ive heard brakes can glaze over time, what exactly is this. Im in two minds to just bite the bullet and get some new pads and discs off euro car parts and put them on myself.

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

 

Cheers

Craig

Could possibly be a bit of grit trapped between the pad & disk which will eventually show up as a score of the disks surface. Glazing is when the disk has become too hot during braking causing a hard surface to form on the disk.

Thanks for the advice. Now you mention it there was light score marks on each disc, not deep enough to run your fingernail in but still there all the same. Think i might get the wheels off again at the weekend and take the pads out, give them a cleanup, reapply copper grease as theyre the original ford ones so doubt that theres anything left on them in terms of lubricant. Hopefully that makes a difference :)