Creaking Brembos
 

The front brakes calipers on the flying WR1 are creaking whenever I press the brake pedal with car stationary with engine running or stopped.

I have the brembo 4 pots and performance friction 2 piece discs and Z rated pads with about 5mm pad remaining, all with even wear.

It's been creaking for months but brakes work ok. At service last year fluid replaced with dot 5.1 and pads were removed all cleaned up and reassembled with copperslip grease but it still creaked.

Today I bit the bullet and and repeated the procedure. Carefully cleaned up the pads and calipers and made sure pistons free. Went out for hard braking session, brakes pull up ok, usual slightly springy pedal. The creaking reduced but still there.

I noticed the pads were slightly dished on friction surface along longest axis so levelled them out on flat surface and thought this may be reason, but apparently not.

Have been googling for creaking brembos and its a common problem. Some suggest the pistons be removed and all cleaned up and lubricated but no one has responded with a successful result.

So phase two will be just that but thought I'd try here first.

Has anyone had this problem and solved it?

Mike

Friend of mine has this problem and I know other people that have it too. No idea what it is, but does sound odd and a little bit amusing :D

How is this "a little bit amusing"?