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anybody else get this?
The first time I hit the brakes after i start moving the car (well sometimes not the very first time, but verrry soon after i start moving the car and i hit the brakes) i get this "CLICK" from the back of the car. I don't know what it is or where its coming from. Its really annoying. Im one of those ppl that hates any kind of rattling or clicking or strange noises in my car.
The first time I hit the brakes after i start moving the car (well sometimes not the very first time, but verrry soon after i start moving the car and i hit the brakes) i get this "CLICK" from the back of the car. I don't know what it is or where its coming from. Its really annoying. Im one of those ppl that hates any kind of rattling or clicking or strange noises in my car.
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Rep Power: 0 i have the same thing happen... but not just the first time i brake but like everytime i hit the brakes.... btw... this topic should've been in Vehicle Issues/Problems [IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif[/IMG] sorry just helping out the mod's
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Rep Power: 0 wow, thats really weird, i didnt expect this to ever to be posted! I thought it was just because I had afermarket wheels put on, and it had something to do with that since the guys that put them on were RETARDS!
It happens to my car, like you said, only when I first start the car and hit the brakes. Mine happens to the front driver side brake though. I'ts loud too, especially when you have the window down! I was going to bring it up to my Honda dealer next weekend cause I have to bring in my car for an oil change and that 7,500 mile check up.
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It happens to my car, like you said, only when I first start the car and hit the brakes. Mine happens to the front driver side brake though. I'ts loud too, especially when you have the window down! I was going to bring it up to my Honda dealer next weekend cause I have to bring in my car for an oil change and that 7,500 mile check up.
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Rep Power: 0 my wheels are still stock, and I've had no mechanical mods done to the car, so this sounds like a problem common to a lot of civics. I think im gonna go ask the dealer. Only seems happens on a cold start.
brake clicks are normal, its just them adjusting to the rotors, the calipers move into place when you first hit the brakes. The pistons inside move and set the caliper on the rotor, its all normal. Hondas brakes just suck, my 2 cents.
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Rep Power: 0 Hey guys... I approached the dealer about this months ago and honda actually issued a bulletin concerning this.
After driving in reverse, say backing into a parking spot, the brakes will click the first time the brake pedal is depressed in reverse. When you pull out of the spot they should also click once when driving forward and depressing the brakes for the first time. This is not a major problem, it happened to me on previous cars as well. The brake calipers are a set width, well the calipers are made by honda, but honda doesn't make the brake pads, they are made by someone else. honda gives them specs to build the pads by... A 'tolerance' if you will. They have to be within a certain size range. The brake pad manufacturer makes them somewhere between those two specs, which will leave a gap between the side of the caliper and the pad. That way, when the rotors are turning in an opposite direction than they were before, and the pedal is depressed, the pads come down on the rotor, and since the rotor is turning it smacks the pad against the OTHER side of the caliper, causing a lound *CLICK*
If that was even understandable, that is the answer to your question. It's nothing to be concerned about, just a matter of factory tolerances and pad clearance within the caliper. It happens on a lot of cars really, my last 2 chevrolets did it. If you go to the honda dealer, they will fold up a business card and stick it in the gap between the pad and caliper to prove to you that there is nothing wrong with it and that they know this. The pad will cushion the impact/fill the cap thus eliminating the click... for a few days... til the folded business card is pulverized from the pressure of a boosted brake system stopping a 2500 pound car. Then the clicking will come back, but once again it is nothing to worry about.
Sorry for the long post.... But that should answer your question.
After driving in reverse, say backing into a parking spot, the brakes will click the first time the brake pedal is depressed in reverse. When you pull out of the spot they should also click once when driving forward and depressing the brakes for the first time. This is not a major problem, it happened to me on previous cars as well. The brake calipers are a set width, well the calipers are made by honda, but honda doesn't make the brake pads, they are made by someone else. honda gives them specs to build the pads by... A 'tolerance' if you will. They have to be within a certain size range. The brake pad manufacturer makes them somewhere between those two specs, which will leave a gap between the side of the caliper and the pad. That way, when the rotors are turning in an opposite direction than they were before, and the pedal is depressed, the pads come down on the rotor, and since the rotor is turning it smacks the pad against the OTHER side of the caliper, causing a lound *CLICK*
If that was even understandable, that is the answer to your question. It's nothing to be concerned about, just a matter of factory tolerances and pad clearance within the caliper. It happens on a lot of cars really, my last 2 chevrolets did it. If you go to the honda dealer, they will fold up a business card and stick it in the gap between the pad and caliper to prove to you that there is nothing wrong with it and that they know this. The pad will cushion the impact/fill the cap thus eliminating the click... for a few days... til the folded business card is pulverized from the pressure of a boosted brake system stopping a 2500 pound car. Then the clicking will come back, but once again it is nothing to worry about.
Sorry for the long post.... But that should answer your question.
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