I have a Rover 400 two litre petrol "V" reg. The front offside brakes have a knocking sound felt through the brake pedal when slowing from around 20 miles an hour for instance coming up to a junction. If I brake hard there is no knocking. My local garage fitted new discs and pads around 2,000 miles ago and has said the brakes are fine to use but is at a loss to see what the problem might be.
Any ideas welcome....
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Are you getting a knocking when turning hard as well,poss it may be CV joints??
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Steve
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No knocking when turning on full lock or normal unless breaking at slow speeds....
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Get them to check the disc runout,it could be a distorted disc.
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Steve
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I would recomend a close inspection of the brake disc to see if there is any imperfection on the disc! are the wheel bolts tight? quite common if you have alloy wheels & new disc's been fitted!
Is it a knocking or could it be the ABS? is the pedal pulsing. If a reluctor ring cracks on the shaft it will make the ABS pulse at low speeds on one wheel!
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many thanks, fantastic help guys especially as i`m not near a Rover garage and only use my local. It gives them something to go on!
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Just a a final note.... The car went into the garage this morning and they found a broken reluctor ring. Although they would not just replace the ring on its own they have ordered the `CV ball joint` that has the ring already fitted so problem solved. Thank you again for the help, its nice to go into a garage with a bit of technical knowledge!
A note for anyone else looking for a replacement reluctor ring for Rover and MG cars I have found a good web site supplying them and for those that want to do their own repairs they even show how to do that as well. www.reluctorrings.com
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thankyou tegs for the info on www.reluctorrings.com. Very usefull to know that someone makes them as they are so common for cracking. glad th info was of help
Regards
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