Christian Baril

Yesterday when I pulled out of the drive there was a metal scraping noise coming from the read wheels that sounded like the worn brake pad indicator. I pulled on the emergency brake a couple times while holding in the release button and it quit. Now the only time I hear the noise is during real hard right turns, like during full right lock on the steering wheel. When I tap the brakes a couple times it disappears, only to reappear later during hard rights. I figure there is something caught behind the rotor shield on the inside of the left rear wheel, and tried to clean it out, but it's pretty hard to get anything in there to feel around. Could this sound be something else?

thomsbrain

Check your brake pad retainer leaf spring on that wheel (the one that presses the pads snugly into their slots). When I bought my car I found that one of them had been replaced with an incorrectly sized spring that had slipped into the cavity of the caliper and was occasionally scraping along the edge of the rotor. If that's all it is, it is an extremely cheap part to replace.