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Old 12-28-2004, 06:45 PM
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I replaced my rear pads and now my rear left brake makes a scraping sound when braking at slower speeds. I can hear it scrape when I accelerate slowly as well. Could something be scraping against my rotor? Does a dirty ABS sensor cause any noise? TIA.
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Old 12-28-2004, 07:23 PM
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pad in backwards?
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definitely not.
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pad separation?
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Brand new pads..
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still can happen, especially if not seated correctly. one side or both? take it apart and look.
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speaking from experience, oh king of the smoke screen?
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Ah, I'm an idiot. One of the pads were backwards. Fixed now =].
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Default I did the exact same thing, a friend was like "isn't that kinda backwards...?" when I was putting
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that was one way to finish off those rear rotors. still running them.
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