Front Brake Pad Rattle Noise Over Small Bumps.Anyone Heard Of Fix.?

[gazza04xr6t]

any one had front brake pad rattle on ba xr6 ?

[Benji_vs]

Bit more info mate.

What sort of car is it? Does it happen over all bumps? At what speed?

It may not even be the brakes

[RSK]

Mine always have, and is evident over really small bumps at low speed, under/around 30, but mostly over a road that's made out of bricks/pavers. As soon as you ever so lightly apply the brake (not enough to actually slow the car down) it disappears. I believe it's the brake pad rattling in the caliper, and have heard a few people say there's a clamp to keep the caliper in place. I've taken it to a forum sponsor and they said a brake pad change will fix it, which it did, but it came back within a few thousand km's.

[Grug]

I notice a rattle coming from the front of the car somewhere, sounds like someones jingling bells or something.. Guess that's what it is?

[turbomonkey]

try a little silicone between pads and caliper

to keep it from moving or buy a product call antisquell

it in a red bottle about $20

[Wenier]

I had this happen on my motorbike and what was happening is the caliper pistons on one side weren't self adjusting so therefore as the pad wore down it had a gap instead of always just touching the disc. The way to fix it was take the caliper off pull it apart clean everything some new o-rings and make sure there were no burrs on the pistons themselves as that could cause an issue as well. By the sounds of it you are having the same issue.

[gazza04xr6t]

thanks for the replys.my 04 xr6t started makeing a rattleing noise at the front . was easy to find just thump the front tyre , you can stop the noise bypushing on the brake pads . mine started about 75000 kms . have heard it is a common thing / makes a good car sound like rubbish .

[Smoke them tyres]

Have you recently changed your shock absorbers?

[NitroXR6T]

seems like a factory fitted thing! 3200kms and ive got it too. (Front left)

[gazza04xr6t]

nothing has been changed, the car is stock standard. someone else said to peen over the edges of the pads to tighten then up in the caliper ? might try some factory/bendix pads and see wot happens.