Are you getting a groove in your rotor? Maybe you have a small stone or something lodged inbetween your pad and rotor. That's not too common but can happen...
Brake pads can actually glaze over if your a light touch. These pads sound fairly new though... maybe go to an empty parking lot and lock it up once or twice? (use your safety judgment on this one!)quote:
Originally posted by SeattleGLI:
Interesting. These pads weren't my choice, actually--I don't care for Metalmasters--but its what IPD reccomended.
I didn't actually remove the caliper to look @ the pad surface...perhaps that's worth doing. The rotors have no obvious grooving on the front/rear surfaces that my fingernail can detect. The car doesn't pulse or pull under braking at all, so it's not warped rotors, I don't think.
Perhaps the answer is to resurface the rotors and swap back to OEM pads. Are they a dealer-only item, or are they available as an aftermarket brand (e.g., Pagid, ATE, etc)?