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?

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

please tell us

 

This is my guess too.

 

 

You can't leave us hanging!

 

Come on, fess up.

 

It must be going around.

 

Ebrake?

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

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