Today I changed out my front brake pads to some Hawk HPS pads, and I had my rotors resurfaced at Napa.

The install went fine, everything went in without a problem. I flushed through all the old brake fluid as I added new fluid and did the bleeding.

I took it out for a test, went up to 25mph and stepped on the brakes with normal effort and I heard CLUNK CLUNK CLUNK from the front wheels, both sides. I even felt the clucking in the floor of the car.

The clucking was at a regular pattern and it slowed as the car slowed. The clunking got stronger as I stepped on the brakes harder.

I went up to 25mph and braked to a stop 3 times with the same result.

Afterwards I jacked up the car and spun each wheel, and both sounded like the brakes rubbed at a certain part in the revolution of the wheel. Is it possible that Napa screwed up the resurfacing of the rotors?

Thanks

 

Last time I changed my rotors/pads I had a similar noise. After the break in the noise went away. You might want to give it a week or so to see if it goes away.

 

Thanks for the reply lastlaf.

I put the old brake pads back in and everything was normal, so that means the rotors are fine. I put the new pads back in, and I had problems again. I was pretty po'ed by now, so I just drove around thinking that my anger would scare it into working properly, and it did actually get a little better.

I think the problem is that the rotor surface is pretty rough, it wasn't fininshed smooth like I've seen before, they have a surface exactly like a vinyl record. I think what's happening is the pads are catching on the rotor too hard because the rotor is too rough. I'll drive around for a while until to rotors smooth down, I think that should fix it.

 

i'm sure those pads didn't seat right, and it will go away...if not...send the pads to me

 

It may be your caliper, sometimes the piston(or whatever is in it) messes up and doesn't retract all the way on one side.