I had my rear brakes serviced at the dealer 30,000 miles ago (2 years). They resurfaced the rotors and installed new pads. Now my passenger side rear brake is constantly making noise. At first I thought that the pads were just worn out and that the wear indicator was making the noise, but after checking my service records I'm not so sure. I have not had the chance to take the wheel off and visually inspect the area.

Thoughts on this? Is there something else that could be making the noise?

 

Do a visual. There is really no need to resurface a disk. You are just throwing away usable thickness. The pads will grind down the disk and conform to the surface, even with rivet damage. If your disk do have some damage, go easy on it for a few hundred miles.

 

Could be a clip rubbing against the rotor as well. 30,000 miles seems much too short for rear brakes though. Fronts on the other hand I wouldn't be surprised. Make the visual check then post back

 

Sounds like a binding caliper to me.

 

Make sure the backing plates arent rubbing the rotor as well.

If not, I agree with the above statement

 

and just to let you know I have drilled and slotted rotors for about 3 years. The brakes that were put on just over a year ago were warranteed for 12,000 miles or a year. Well all of a sudden I could hear a metal rubbing noise coming from my rear wheels. I wasn;t sure which rear wheel it was so last week I checked the driver side and it was perfectly fine, plenty of brake pad left and still a smooth rotor. I didn't have time to check the other side until this week. It was the weirdest thing I have seen.
The outer brake pad was worn down quite a bit but not completely. The Inner brake pad with the metal warning sensor on it was worn at an angle. So that the top of the brake pad was worn down to the metal brake shoe, but the bottom of the brake pad where the sensor is located, still had just enough brake pad on it so that it was not making contact with the rotor, thus NOT warning me that my brake pads were in need of changing. So the first warning I got was the metal brake pad wearing against my rotor.

So this past weekend was spent changing the rotor and brakes, which wouldn't have been so bad but the brake piston took about 2 hours to spin back in far enough so that the new brake pads and rotor would fit properly.
I swear one turn of that piston is about a 100th of a micron, not to mention I was pushing the brake fluid back up the line which made it very strenuous.

Just letting you know what could happen.