Grinding noise!! Brakes???

[munkyboy]

Hey guys,

On my way home tonight I heard a grinding noise, cant really describe the noise as such but stops under braking. Am I right to believe that this is actually coming from the brakes???

The only thing I can think of is a stone chipping has lodged itself somewhere as the other night I had to unfortunately drive over a freshly chipped road as they were laying it down, only doing about 5mph but you can imagine the pain I was going through having to do this. Is it likely one of those horrible stones got wedged somewhere and is grinding away at some metal somewhere? Only a quick inspection on the brakes as I stopped the car and the discs look fine thinking it was in the pad somewhere.

Any help is much appreciated

Thanks

[DanED30GTI]

Could check your dust shields. Mine came looses and started scraping off the disc. Sounded like the most unholy sounded ever and definitely not one you would associate with a gti! A bit like your exhaust is scraping along the floor 

[Tfsi_Mike]

What Dan said. Even a bit of gravel between the rotor & dust shield can sound horrendous 

[Streetwise-REVO]

Grinding noise which goes when brakes are applied is a bit odd, my advise is get it checked out ASAP.

[bushypad]

Yes i remember having this noise also. Tapped all four dust shields and also tried reversing back 10 yards or so dunno if that helped but mine went away after that!

[phem0r]

I've had stones get between the dust shield and brakes, made a god awful sound! Fixed by reversing a little for the stone to fall out

[munkyboy]

I had the stone in the dust shields when I came off the road and sounds like a train stopping all of a sudden. This noise isn't as severe as that but will check the dust shields etc.