alwayslove

Lately my brake is making a grinding noise whenever i press hard on it or whenever i am a slope, this grinding noise always appears, but for the rest of the time, it always comes and go. I brought it to my dealership and let them take a look, they said I still have 30% brake pad so he think my brake pad may be overheat and he suggested me to eliminate this problem by changing the brake pad plus machining the front caliper/rotors. With this service, it would come to about $250! I have heard there has been some problem with the brake that has this problem, I have searched TSB from alldata.com, they have listed there should be a brake service can done on front brake (Brakes - Brake Disc Refinishing Guidelines) but there is no detail (pdf) file attached to it? Am I looking at the right thing, and if I do, if anyone has that TSB sheet, can you PM or send it to me? I am going back to dealership tomorrow so if it would be great I can have this sheet with me when I go tomorrow.

Oh one more thing, I am not sure if this is related or not, but when I am driving, I can feel there is something scratching through the gas pedal when I going foward, I am not sure if this is brake related or something different?

Thanks for all you guys input and help!

Ronin

You're better off buying new pads and rotors online, and then paying a garage to install them for you. Much cheaper than $250 and you'll get better pads and new rotors out of it (instead of cheap machined Honda rotors).

Try AEM/Nissin pads and Brembo blank rotors... that's the combo I got and they work great. Price was around $130 for them together, but you can probably get it cheaper if you shop around.

Ronin

Oh, and for your grinding sound, if you can live with it, I would just wait until everything is ready to be changed. I wouldn't bother machining the rotors unless you're getting vibration in the steering wheel during braking.