green stuff pads. clicking?

[Ben F]

have recently bought an s2 elise which had greenstuff pads fitted all round when serviced about a month before my purchase.

problem is, on the front they click upon braking.appears there is a little play up and down between the pad and caliper as though they are slightly too small. It doesn't effect braking but doesn't sound good!

anybody experienced something similar?

[Trixster]

I think I'm experiencing a similar thing with newly fitted Mintex 1144s and EBC turbo grooved discs. There's definately a slight 'clicking' coming from the right-hand side of the car, and there's some clicking 'feel' under braking. It's not too bad and if anything is getting noticably less as the pads wear in.

[shangani]

The aftermarket pads are slightly looser in the calipers than the oem ones. I fitted little rubber shims (anti-squeal shims) and the clicking disappeared. Shouldn't cause problems if you are certain they were fitted correctly in the 1st place.

[Trixster]

I'm absolutely positive they were done properly (by JPS in newcastle). Come to think of it, i'm not 100% certain I had anti-squeal pads for all 4 corners so this may well be the explaination.

[piooly]

Trixster said:

I think I'm experiencing a similar thing with newly fitted Mintex 1144s and EBC turbo grooved discs. There's definately a slight 'clicking' coming from the right-hand side of the car, and there's some clicking 'feel' under braking. It's not too bad and if anything is getting noticably less as the pads wear in.

I have had the Mintex 1144 fited for a while now, and they have just started to click, and you feel it through the pedal, so I'm glad to hear other have the problem, I thought it might be something worse. I actually prefer the OEM pads to the Mintex ! better when hot, but they are a little more expensive I spose...

[S Works]

Mine do this mildly as well, nothing to worry about I don't think as there's no fade as a result.

[Extra 300 Driver]

IMPOSTER FROM THE CERBERA FORUM WARNING

I had this on my Cerbera (now sold looking for a nice S2 111S). As its been said its the pad moving up and down in the caliper. The standard fix is a small smear of silicone on the back of the pad. This will fix it to the piston and stop the clicking.

Its only if you are picky, the clicking does no harm to the brakes at all.

Hope this helps,

Nick

[anonymous-user]

Well, well, had new front pads fitted recently. Had to have Green Stuff as an iterim fix and have been getting a very loud (i.e. could hear over the sound of stage 2 AND earplugs) clicking from the damned things.

[lotopete]

greenstuff pads are slightly smaller than std cure is small rubber pad stuck to caliper top edge where pad sits.can get this rubber from chris neils.i have done this mod many times and it does work.