Hey Scotty I have this issue on my truck and as well as my girlfriends car. I just recently replaced the pads on both vehicles and the rotors on just my truck. So after the job on both vehicles, there is this slight almost vibration noise and feel when you let off brake pedal at dead stop and the vehicles are in drive. During the brake job I lubed everything. Maybe even went a little overboard. But everything got lubed including the sliding pins. Vehicles brake fine and there are no noises when applying brakes while driving. It seems like it’s not an issue at all but it’s killing me to know how to fix it or what I did wrong. I did both vehicles brakes over 7k miles ago so this issue isn’t going away with time. Please help!
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Unfortunately the way things are you can't just slap stuff together anymore. Most of the time you can get away with it, since everything is lubed up, and all tightened to spec, then my assumption would be the pads themselves. If your GF car and your truck used the same brand of pad it could just be that. With your rotors if you got a set of pads and rotors from the same manufacturer that would be a different story. Hope you didn't get the cheap china crap.
Thanks for the fast reply. And you would be correct on the same manufacture of pads. Unfortunately they are the carquest wearever pads. I was told they are good product from my mechanic at my work. Not that they are bad pads, they just came with a slight annoyance
Yeah personally for me, I would go with whatever brand is more suited for said vehicle, toyota/honda I go with japanese made brake parts or ford gm I'd go american. It for sure makes a difference on benz and bmw cause they gotta be premium for some bs reason. then again for most other cars causation is not always equal to correlation so I'm not so sure myself. That is just the method I used and my customers never seem to have an issue with it where as the general overall "universal" type pads and rotors are always too average in some cases I've seen. Never tried the car quest stuff so I couldn't tell ya haha.
Sticking caliper pistons are common. The polished piston bores get contaminated internally by old watery brake fluid, by failed seal externally, and the pistons can seize/crack.
Most overlook this on a brake job...you have to do some moderate speed panic stops to seat the pads to the rotors/shoes to drums.
New rotors also need to be checked for warpage before install. "Brand new broke" is common...check with straightedge or check on rotor lathe. Also, over torqueing wheel nuts can cause problems.
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Change the pads and use Akebono ones. Most likely, your pads are not good quality.
Sometimes the flexible brake lines rot and collapse inside (mileage?). This prevents the brake piston from retracting properly.
