What's made you grumpy today?

[SB1500]

Disc brake caliper sliders?

You were spot on. The Toyota master technician finally got a chance to see the creaking while it was happening on Tuesday. They looked at it the next morning. Absolutely nothing dangerous or "wrong" but despite having 80% of life left, he suspects the brake pads on the front wheels are to blame. Recommended replacing them and while at it, re-greasing the sliding pins and the calliper pistons.

They quoted £250, said it wouldn't be covered under warranty as it's a consumable / maintenance job. Fair.

I presumed the CT had the same brakes of some random Toyota model of the same size but apparently not, they weren't able to get me them ordered in to do it myself. There's also a bunch off fittings and pieces that are Lexus only and not on Toyotas. Even though, as I spotted a few weeks ago, the current Corolla has bigger discs and brakes than any CT (since they were all the same power / engine / drivetrains). I suspect due to the 2.0 and 1.8 engines and up to 180hp on the new Corolla's.

Well, I'll probably live with it now, try for a few months to go hard enough on the brakes so that they actually get pressed (not just the MG2 recovering energy) and see if that can bed them in any better.

Not sure if these are originals.. they might be to be honest. But hey, good news all the same. ...I'm on the wrong thread now

 

[Pugglt Auld Jock]

You were spot on. The Toyota master technician finally got a chance to see the creaking while it was happening on Tuesday. They looked at it the next morning. Absolutely nothing dangerous or "wrong" but despite having 80% of life left, he suspects the brake pads on the front wheels are to blame. Recommended replacing them and while at it, re-greasing the sliding pins and the calliper pistons.

They quoted £250, said it wouldn't be covered under warranty as it's a consumable / maintenance job. Fair.

I presumed the CT had the same brakes of some random Toyota model of the same size but apparently not, they weren't able to get me them ordered in to do it myself. There's also a bunch off fittings and pieces that are Lexus only and not on Toyotas. Even though, as I spotted a few weeks ago, the current Corolla has bigger discs and brakes than any CT (since they were all the same power / engine / drivetrains). I suspect due to the 2.0 and 1.8 engines and up to 180hp on the new Corolla's.

Well, I'll probably live with it now, try for a few months to go hard enough on the brakes so that they actually get pressed (not just the MG2 recovering energy) and see if that can bed them in any better.

Not sure if these are originals.. they might be to be honest. But hey, good news all the same. ...I'm on the wrong thread now

So the diagnosis and suggested action has been made but no physical action taken? Any reason why you shouldn't remove the front callipers, check the pistons are free, grease the sliders, face the pads and reinstall? Or have they done that? maybe I've misunderstood.

 

[SB1500]

So the diagnosis and suggested action has been made but no physical action taken? Any reason why you shouldn't remove the front callipers, check the pistons are free, grease the sliders, face the pads and reinstall? Or have they done that? maybe I've misunderstood.

Yes, they had the car in to look at. Apparently they had taken the pads out to narrow down the creaking sounds to them. That's all they've done and they don't stick around long to explain it much sadly. They took no action other than looking into it since it potentially could have been a warranty issue or relating to the brake booster job they did.

I will be doing that in the next couple of weeks, cleaning up and looking at what's there and seeing what potentially needs ordered. Although even a full new set of genuine brakes and the trimmings would only be a few hundred versus... some sort of multi-hundred pound part that's on both sides and part of some elaborate structure of which any part / combination of parts together might have been causing the noise leading to a parts canon! lol