# Brake Question (Clicking/Grinding Noise)

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**Category:** PittSpeed Automotive\
**Created:** [May 12, 2008, 8:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/brake-question-clicking-grinding-noise/197394 "2008-05-12T08:52:07Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 5:26am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/brake-question-clicking-grinding-noise/197394/13 "2008-05-13T05:26:09Z")

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> [@Need room mate in three bedroom house - Alden](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/need-room-mate-in-three-bedroom-house-alden/36024/14):
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> i was just guessing… i don’t worry about axles until they are broken 🙂
> 
> if a click warrants you to replace parts, then hold up!
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> Being that you took the brakes apart and checked them out… i’d speculate to something else? how are the tie rods, ball joints and suspension?

I didn’t really check them out when I was under there. I specualted it was the brakes and focused on that. Late last year I put new struts on it and everything with the suspension looked fine.

Here are some things I noticed this morning that make me think it may not be a problem with the axle, but maybe a brake problem.

1. It doesn’t do it when the car is cold. I have to drive around for a few miles before I notice it.

2. I took it in a parking lot and turned the wheel and accelerated slowly…didn’t hear anything. The car was cold when I did this.

3. Mostly notice it while coasting through traffic while foot was barely on the brakes. If I have to stop quickly then I did not notice it. While stopped I sort of jab at the brakes and I would hear it click/clunk.

4. Maybe a better description of the noise is a click/clunk/slight grinding noise. Picture all noised sort of merged into one.

5. Like I said I had it all apart and every bolt is tight, the shims are new, brakes felt tight.

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