tokic_o

Hi everyone,

New member here and I tried searching but I don't think I was able to find anything related to my question (albeit I'm still a noob and might not have searched properly).
Hopefully someone can help:

So I've got a 2021 718 Spyder and I noticed a ticking sound coming from the front brakes and/or rotors at slow speed/coming to a stop. This sound has randomly come up after I washed my car for the last time before winter storage and when I took it out for a quick last drive after the wash. I decided to take the car out for a longer drive (~20km) and tried pressing on the brakes harder during the drive and the sound seemed to have disappeared by the end of my drive? I'm wondering if anyone knows what causes this ticking noise to happen and if its normal or if something is damaging my brakes/rotors?

Forgot to mention I have steel brakes not pccb.

Same thing and noise also happened after my last wash last year and went away after going for a second longer drive...

Thanks in advance

Larry Cable

probably just some dirt or other contaminant on the surface of the rotors that the pads are encountering - after a while its scrubbed off with brake use

p.s you dont mention if iron or pccb?

RennlistTomE

Had a similar issue with our '21 Spyder. Relatively soon after delivery. Might have also been after a wash.
Also at slow speed / low load braking.
It would also disappear after a few aggressive stops. But it would return.
Dealer attributed it to 'pads which weren't well-seated'.
Unbeknownst to me, their tech ran it through some hard stops. How many???
Problem never re-appeared.

Larry Cable

https://www.zeckhausen.com/catalog/i...Path=6446_6443

SpyderSenseOC

Braking only? Have you checked for a stone lodged in the tread of a tire?

RennlistTomE

Fantastic post. Great write up.
Thanks a ton for this Larry.

Larry Cable