Wheel Scraping

[riwiho]

The last time I used the Elise was 5 days ago when I drove around 100 miles down the M6 back to my home. The roads on this trip were very salty and I was cleaning my windscreen every 5 mins with a jet of water on the screen to clean it from a white build of what I presume was road salt.

I have since been away for 5 days and when I pulled the Elise out the garage this evening the wheels were making scraping noises (mainly the fronts) when I moved the vehicle.

It sounded like the brake pad was scraping against the disc, this did slightly wear off over the period of my short journey this evening (10 mins) however when I slowly pulled into the garage i could still hear the slight scraping.

Could this be a build up of salt on the disc?

Has anyone else experienced anything similar?

Advice? Thanks

[Stephanie Plum]

Couple of good hard stamps on the brakes next time you're out will solve it. Similar to when the disks rust and the pads stick a bit after rain.

[Paul RN]

Sounds more like you have a stone caught in one of your pads.

[MJK 24]

Your discs have gone very rusty after being parked up covered in salt.

I left mine in the garage like this for a week and the handbrake was stuck on hard.

They'll clean up with use - don't worry.

[bher]

MJK 24 said:

Your discs have gone very rusty after being parked up covered in salt.

I left mine in the garage like this for a week and the handbrake was stuck on hard.

They'll clean up with use - don't worry.

I agree with this. Never put your handbrake when raining-salty-humid. Lock is very easily.
After washing the car, dry the discs with some braking before to leave it alone

[riwiho]

Gave the R a clean this morning followed by a 30 min run and the the noise has subsided. It did take some regular breaking but its gone. I will be leaving it in gear when stored in the garage now

[bher]

riwiho said:

I will be leaving it in gear when stored in the garage now