Nasty Occassional Brake Grind

Sometimes when decelerating often going down hill, a very very nasty grinding vibration from front drivers area vibrates through whole car. Passengers look sidways at me!!!!

Now its recently had discs and pads, MOT and a second look at braking system. On rollong road all brakes top notch and no grind - it has to be something else.. tends to happen when approaching roundabouts as front of car settles on nose a bit.

Any ideas?

Ian

[rstrang]

Hi,

You say recent discs and pads, were they genuine Volvo parts?.

Had this on 3rd party pads from German & Swedish.

Richard

Discs are ATE OEM, pads 3rd party from euro car parts. Could the pads really be doing this, I had wondered about wheel bearing?

Ian

[rstrang]

Ian,

Can't remember manufacturer of pads could have been Zimmerman or some thing similar. Brakes stopped fine but when the car was loaded and brakes hot got a lot of noise/vibration. Changed pads for Volvo supplied ATE pads with integral shims has been Ok. ever since.

I don't know what other peoples experiences are.

Richard

Thanks for the advice - really useful. Think this is probably what I'm suffering, bit sickening that a 3rd part pad should do this, especially when I got them out and re copper eased them last week!! Looks like their destined for the tip and I had better go get some proper ones!!

Makes a cronic noise when it does it doesnt it!!!!!!!!

Thanks Ian