How to diagnose binding brakes?

[tidus99]

Morning.

I have a Clio 200 and I suspect I may have a problem with the front (passenger side) brake calliper. Last week I noticed in slow moving traffic that when moving off it made a metallic noise. At speed today I noticed a similar noise coming from the passenger side.

Braking seems fine still and I haven’t heard any screeching yet.


How would I pin point the problem to the brakes? Disc temperature, burning smell or something visible?


On my previous Type R I noticed nothing at all but after a service was told the front calliper was binding and had to be replaced at a ludicrous cost!



P.S. I am not mechanically minded...

 

[Advikaz]

I'm stripping mine down at the weekend. It's easy enough. It's pretty common with these brembo calipers.

Be careful not to shag the pins when you remove them.

 

[Fred@BTM]

every single car we have in with these calipers has an issue, always the inner pad, pads have to be removed and the back plates ground down a touch

don't use bloody copper grease, not needed

 

[not normal dan]

These brembos really are terrible for this, my old 197 brakes were w**k until I stripped them and replaced the pads.

The in pads were stuck so as Fred said on the new ones I took a grinder to the backing just to increase the clearance slightly. Then onto the pins, 3 shot out and the 4th one was seized and I had to get the grinder out. I fitted a different style of pin then that was machined slightly smaller and used a R clip to secure them and these were a fraction of the cost of oe Renault items.