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Old 05-19-2017, 03:05 AM
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This wound up being temporary, but I wanted to get the car checked out. I took the car to my Porsche dealer and played this video to the service advisor.

He listened to it, looked at me, and with a perfect deadpan said: "That's normal."

At which point I burst out laughing (and so did he).

I'll post an update with the rest of the story tomorrow.

In the meantime, post your diagnosis!
Old 05-19-2017, 03:55 AM
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Hard to tell from the video but it almost sounds like you flipped a small stone into one of the brake rotor/caliper and it was dragging.
Old 05-19-2017, 04:04 AM
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I live on some gravely back roads and get this once in a while...... I even got this on the highway after driving through a repaving zone.

The 1st time it ever happened it scared the crap put of me..... thought I was dragging the exhaust or something it's so loud.

The pebble usually pops out by itself and/or pull off and and find a place to reverse for a short distance..... the pebble will come out.

One time I used a stick and just pushed lightly on the shield behind the rotor the pebble was stuck... to help to dislodge it.
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reverse backwards and apply the brakes hard - that usually dislodges a pebble
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Yup, those ---^
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Pebble in the rotor, had this myself once and had the same response you did!
Old 05-19-2017, 02:36 PM
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Agree with everyone else on the pebble. Happened to me as well. I just hit the brakes pretty hard and it went away.
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Originally Posted by randr
reverse backwards and apply the brakes hard - that usually dislodges a pebble
Mine picked up a stone on way home one day, same sound as the OP video. I did the above and stone came out.
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Wow. You guys know everything.

I never found the pebble; it was dislodged when I rolled in reverse.

There's very little clearance between the wheel and the calipers - and the PCCBs are massive. You can also see where the inside of the wheel has been scored by whatever got wedged in there.

Yes, I remembered to remove the penny.

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A better view:

Old 05-20-2017, 05:54 AM
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time to change rotors?
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Happened to me on my GT3 and freaked me out too.
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Me to in a Cayman S
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I'am 100% sure that it is little stone between rotor and rotor metal cover, i agree that it is normal because my pzero's are like magnet for little stones

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This happened to me DAILY in my M4. Very annoying. Like a tin can was dragging behind the car. Design issue.



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