Well the title says it all. It comes from the left rear I believe. When I'm driving next to buildings or other cars I can hear grinding coming from my left rear wheel echoing off and coming back to my ears. Then it gets really bad grinding/groaning when I step on the brakes...bad brakes? Insight would be awesome right now.

 

If pads are not completely worn, I'm thinking wheel hub/bearing.

 

have you looked at your bakes yet??? that would be the first (very obvious) step.

 

Hey Screwthat,

I'm happy to look into this for you. Which model year F-150 do you own and what's its current mileage?

Nick

 

Sorry for the late response. I just started a job as a service tech at David McDavid Acura of Plano Texas (for any potential local members that know of the area). Quite a feat for an 18 year old if you ask me :P

Anyways, the problem was most definitely my brakes. The outside pad was definitely low, but was definitely still functional with 2-3mm of friction material left. The inside pad however was toast. No friction material left what so ever. I had driven on it enough that the rotor was no longer a nice smooth surface. Instead it was like gouged out in several places in a nice circular pattern. It probably could have been saved, but I went ahead and replaced the rotors and installed ceramic pads in the rear. Noise is definitely and completely gone.

It blows my mind though that this is the second time the rear pads have been replaced. The front brakes haven't been touched since it came off the factory lot. But their time is coming up being a 2002 year model. Only 82k miles on it though.

 

Check to see if the pistons in the front calipers are compressing properly and all the way down sounds like the fronts might be seized up al little bit