Is This A Normal Level Of Sound When Gently Releasing The Brake Pedal?

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"My wife just mentioned to me that she thinks her brakes make an abnormal amount of sound..." That pretty much says it all.

In my humble opinion, it matters not what we might think. You don't live with us.

Do yourself a big favor and take it to a shop. Don't delay, don't complain, don't rationalize, don't ask for opinions; putting forward an impression that you also think the brakes make a funny sound would be good.

Besides, there may actually be something wrong with the brakes.

Is this your old Subaru? It's scheduled to be replaced soon, is it not?

this might be a good idea...

Internet auction sites (names withheld) are great for solving problems like this. One simply lists the vehicle with a photograph or two, and in a few days' time someone shows up with some money, swaps it for the vehicle, and takes the problem away.

This transaction should take place at a remote location.

Location wouldn't matter in the UK, as the registered keeper of the vehicle is presented on the registration document V5C, which the parties fill in and send off to register the new keeper as part of the transaction. The owner can be either a person, a group of persons or a corporate body such as a limited company; the keeper must be an individual and it is the keeper who is liable for the upkeep of the vehicle.

PW,

My reply, an attempt at levity, was meant to imply possible damage to structures in the vicinity of the vehicle due to possible lack of the ability to arrest forward motion caused by insufficient friction to the rotating wheel assemblies by the new keeper which is a possibility indicated.

I shall now return to my day job..

Crystal ball says may be metal-to-metal grinding.

Have brakes checked.

Have the wheel bearings checked also. Grinding may not be the brakes. But get to a shop and have them check both out.

Someone mentioned that the vehicle might be a Subaru. I have a Forester & on that the brake pad wear indicator is a thin metal finger which is intended to rub on the brake disc & make a noise to tell you the pads need replacing.

Older Mitsubishis use the same method. My 1989 Mitsubishi "bus" had that, cheap, cheerful and effective....

The first time you hear it you RALLY think something is REALLY broken.

Mine "activated" when there was still more than 50% of brake material untouched, so I bent them back slightly to allow a quiet drive for a few thousand Kms further...till I had time to replace them.....

V-dub (Bosch) uses an interesting concept where they embed a small loop of wire into the pad and when the pad wears down and the wire connection is broken, the dummy light on the instrument panel lights up.

I remember my old '75 Rabbit had a 'thumper' block on each rotor that would contact the pad and cause the pedal to pulse when the pads were worn down.

Had that embedded wire version on a V8 Rover but still managed to have a brake pad shoot out when I tried to stop because it had worn thin enough to slip through the gap.

Really. How dangerous as you basically lose hydraulic pressure when that happens. Very Dangerous....

I think all the disk brakes over the years that I have had, always had two around 6mm pins that would prevent either of the metal parts of the pads flying out......unless they broke or were removed, which never happened.....

The Cushman motor scooter and I suppose other bikes with a rod linking the rear drum brake to the pedal, had a very innovative method for letting you know when the brake plate anchor bolt had sheared. This condition would allow the plate to rotate causing the full-on application of the rear brake, a just barely controlled slide through an intersection and a "High Side" or "Flying W" to use flat track vernacular.

Indeed..... Luckily I was only about 1/2 mile from home at the time & got home gently just using the hand brake.