Hey guys, quick question. My brakes have been squeaking like mad for the past like 4-5 months, and i was told over and over again that this was normal. upon looking at my front rotors today, i noticed a very distinctive silver line, on the smallest radius part of the disk, near the inside. its very noticeable, and I have these on both front discs. the rear discs do not have these. any suggestions to what this might be?

 

Did you check to make sure you still have brake pads left?

 

yea i still have pads lol, like i said its one line at one spot, the rest looks normal

 

Sounds like they are worn out and hitting the backing plates... got a picture?

 

Having brake pad doesnt mean they don't need replaced, rule of thumb once the brake pad is the same width as the back plate change your pads, stock pads (depending on which cobalt you have) aren't super expensive

 

back plate being the rotor? or the plate that holds the pad there. ill try getting a picture tommorow

ive got an 09 ss TC

 

Sounds like one of the backing plate shims came loose. Take the pads out and if the shim is loose, fix it, or chuck it.

 

 

that seems to me to be normal wear. its from the edge of the pad, cutting into the metal of the rotor. not sure what the SS/TC factory pads are constructed of, but performance pads are typically noisy.

 

hmm, i would have thought that something cutting into the rotor would have been bad. yea they are extremely noisy, like from 40-0 km/hr its squeals all the freakin time

 

might check your rotors for wear make sure they aren't at or under their minimum thickness (don't know the specs for that on the brembos)