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Before & After *Warning May Shock* lol
Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 12:11 pm
by WildChild
Here's me believing my father that the strange horrible metal on metal, sandpaper like noise coming when ever i brake is because we've had wet weather..
Then i got back from my 250mile round trip (where the problem occured) and got under the car jacked up..
eeeekk.. needed some new pads me thinks LOL (and some new disks HAHA)
I had to replace both front disks and pads because the pads had warn out on the return journey home.. subsequently i had quite savagely engraved my brake discs : /
Photos for all of you to laugh at
or be horrified at
(you choose):
Front Right Side:
The Front Left Side was one of the worst:
Birds Eye View:
Front Left Side Badly Damaged Disc Brake:
The New Discs:
The MK1 up on its side..
Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 12:39 pm
by DanDiesel
blimey thats some worn out pads u got there!! u were lucky to be able to brake at all!!
Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 1:16 pm
by WildChild
yeh they barely worked.. but they've always been abit thin since i got the car, so braking was never especially great so i just figured it was wet..
work perfectly now
Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 7:44 pm
by polokris
hahaha!! nice one fella!!
ill have to get piccys up of mine too,,,, i had to have the same.... new disks and pads!!!
haha
Kris
Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 8:29 pm
by SpikeyG40
those are shocking pics! nice one!
Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 1:31 am
by omicron
Seen worse.
Pad friction welded to disc was pretty impressive
Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 6:49 pm
by theclient
cor, never seen em that bad before!
lovely mk1 you got there!
Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 10:30 pm
by WildChild
theclient wrote:cor, never seen em that bad before!
lovely mk1 you got there!
Cheers
Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 10:55 pm
by GroovyCarrot
Ouch! That's scary.. think I'll go check my brakes tomorrow, that's a bit unnerving
Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2006 7:00 pm
by Mk2Adam
hehe, for some reason that makes me want to check my brake pads too
Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2006 12:51 pm
by Tahrey1043
yikes!
we'rent you getting the worn pad warning or anything? (if the old cars even had that... i'm sure there's a thing that triggers the warning light when you get metal-metal contact)
it must have been like trying to stop a train!
Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2006 1:41 pm
by WildChild
Tahrey1043 wrote:yikes!
we'rent you getting the worn pad warning or anything? (if the old cars even had that... i'm sure there's a thing that triggers the warning light when you get metal-metal contact)
it must have been like trying to stop a train!
Haha warning lights for pads on an MK1
loving the thought! - no
not really the brakes were actually reasonably good, but are excellent now
Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 1:06 am
by Tahrey1043
heh, i don't even know if it exists on modern cars, or whether it was some BS my dad poisoned my brain with when I was younger
never run a set of pads quite rotten enough to find out!
yer lucky its quite a lightweight ship really, so grinding metal on metal (not the highest friction of all situations) could still bring the whole affair to a halt
Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 12:42 pm
by omicron
Cars with ABS normally have a warning light for pad wear.
If you know what to listen for, you can hear the warning layer built into most pads.
Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 10:06 pm
by Tahrey1043
you mean the high pitched squeal my mother swears blind she "can't hear" even when both me AND my technophobe brother are cursing at the noise coming off them?
she also can't understand the concept of "short play" and "long play" on our VCR either, bless 'er... going slowly soft in the head from far too much teaching