I was cruising along at low speed yesterday, when I heard a faint grinding noise from the rear right brake.

The noise appears with braking, and increases in loudness as I press harder on the brake pedal.

So i flushed the calipers, brakepads and discs as much as I could, and took the car to a parking garage, rolled down the windows on right side and let the car roll by itself at walking speed, foot of the pedals - and heard a very faint noise from the rear right brake, as if something were stuck.

When I pressed the brake pedal, the noise increased.

Checked the pads and disc, and both seem fine (on the outside) to me, so any suggestions to what I should do next?

Apart from the obvious, jack the car up, remove the wheel and check the inside of the brake... Leopard tank drivers never stop at anything.

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Had that, it will wear off.

It might, I'm going to get the car on a ramp to check it anyway. Better safe than sorry... Leopard tank drivers never stop at anything.

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You might have a piston hanging up. I would pull the caliper, remove the pads, and use a brake cleaner to remove any grime on the pistons.

You might also check to see how the pads and disc are wearing to give you a clue to as where the scraping might be coming from. Spin the disc by hand whilst holding a thumbnail up next to the disc. Is the disc warped?

I had a Honda in which the metal shroud behind the disc was bent slightly, which caused a rubbing noise.

Does the noise come and go at a steady pace when moving? Like something is warped?

Turned out the brake pads were worn down, had to swap discs to... It sure wouldn't have wore off dunroof

And of course, the wear was far worse on the inside of the disc. Leopard tank drivers never stop at anything.

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Had the same issue, pads were separated from the pad backing plate.

New pads fitted all fine. New discs were needed too as they were undersize, probably due to excess rubbing from the loosened pads.

brightsparking wrote:

Had the same issue, pads were separated from the pad backing plate.

New pads fitted all fine. New discs were needed too as they were undersize, probably due to excess rubbing from the loosened pads.

I've only got 2,000 miles on MY10, but have noticed that the brakes are quite "grindy". At first I figured that it was simply surface rust being scrubbed off. However, despite driving several miles, the noise remains.

Makes me think that maybe I should be proactive and change out the pads (before they self-destruct, and/or wreck the rotors). The noise is from all four corners.

Check the hand brake SHOES in the rear drum are not stuck on the (little pivot which the hand brake cable pulls on to pull the shoes apart dose seize ON/open thus the handbrake stay on) this will course a grinding noise use more fuel and could over heat the wheel being etc.

You can strip the down and free them off or replace with new (the bottom shoe retaining clip a pain to get back on) don't forget to wind the shoes off with a screw driver to free the drum/disc ( remove the small plastic plug from the drum to do so) and re-adjust on rebuild.

I have Just done both side on mine only 3 week after MOT ?? the work takes just over an Hour.
I have a great handbrake NOW.

All the best hope it helps

Mine got very noisy over the winter. It was down to a very rusty set of discs and a lot of motorway work with virtually no braking. Back to normal now I've used the brakes a bit. The noise appeared to come from the back.

jp wrote:

Check the hand brake SHOES in the rear drum are not stuck on the (little pivot which the hand brake cable pulls on to pull the shoes apart dose seize ON/open thus the handbrake stay on) this will course a grinding noise use more fuel and could over heat the wheel being etc.

Update in case anyone ever has the same issue:

Land Rover told me to bring it in immediately and, keeping it overnight due to haveing to wait for a part, replaced the spring adjuster for the handbrake on the affected wheel, FOC! Absolutely perfect service for a worried customer, and in a weird way I'm looking forward to going back next week so that they can turn their attention to the lack of aircon!