Been a while since I posted. Been going through some personal turmoil and heartache. If anyone has PM'd me and I haven't responded, sorry. Anyways, I Wanted to share this video. I'm going to try it tomorrow.

http://youtu.be/5hNYKeZYJsA

Upon inspection of my front pads, I have a big gap where they should be flush against the caliper. I have very bad chatter (but no clunk). After seeing this video I believe the dude is correct.

Thoughts?

 

Cool fix.

 

Odd. .seems like a bandaid fix. I've never had any noise like what he's describing since new and I've had my calipers/pads apart multiple times, rotors off.

I'd be more concerned about what's pushing the pads back and forth. I bet it's stuck pistons that aren't retracting like they ought to.

 

My guess is maybe my rotors are slightly warped, or due to the fact they are floating rotors... There is play which causes the pads to vibrate and chatter at braking.

 

I don't think we really have 'floating' rotors. They're more like semi floating. Not a whole lot of play there. Severely warped rotors could cause that but you'd probably be able to see the variance by spinning the wheel if it was bad enough to cause a chatter. If I had chatter going on I'd go through everything. .starting with measuring the rotor runout, if good, moving on to the calipers and removing pads, cleaning pistons thoroughly, and finishing with a bleed.

 

I hear ya. I've done all of that. I'm religious when it comes to maintenance and **** when it comes to "I'm bored lets do the 25,000 mile service at 9.5k" thing. Also, I'm thinking the pistons are retracting as they should which is what's giving the pads room to chatter like that.

The noise is definitely coming from the pads. I'm off to the store in a few minutes and after I test it out I'll report back.

 

Ok installed and tested this out and the verdict is that it does in fact work. All the brake chatter is now gone.

 

Mine make a weird sound like a rattlesnake shaking its tail or a cicada

 

Try the spring trick. Couldn't hurt.

 

Vent holes in the rotors cause a vibration on the front when the brakes are applied.