Kahdmus

Just did a quick pad change, went to bed the pads in ...and after applying the brakes a few times, I got enormous scraping from the front passenger wheel.

Pulled the wheel off - rotor was hardly moving, as if the piston/pads hadn't retracted. Prised back pads with pliers, pulled away with no noise. Once I applied brakes, it happened again...

Any ideas?

Kahdmus

Never mind...I found the problem..not even going to admit to it!

jml8785

Oh no you don't. You gotta come clean. We will be merciful.

Dharn55

I'm betting one of the pads was in backwards! If so this is the second such problem I have seen posted on a Porsche blog in the last couple of weeks.

BiteEmNBeatEm

please tell us

Imo000

This is my guess too.

Sneaky Pete

dotframe

You can't leave us hanging!

Barn996

Come on, fess up.

white out

It must be going around.

CDLVancouver

Ebrake?

fpb111

But they last much longer when you do it that way.

Neb

I bet it's in backwards too.. my brother did that to his 997. I don't know how you can put them in that way and not notice

KrazyK

Don't feel bad, Im sure I've done much worse getting in a hurry. I've learned to double check and sometimes triple check, or more, while doing technical jobs on my 996. I will even take photos or notes for reference.

I took off one day and the ABS light and all kinds of flashing warnings came on, stopped, killed engine thinking I had just destroyed something, looked down and saw E-brake partially on. Felt like a complete idiot because wife was with me.

So come on man, you gotta tell us now.

Imo000

My father did the backwards pad last year. Drove it for a day.