MarkZ said:
It's a 5MT bought new, I already have after market pads and had the brakes
checked at my last service??
P.S. sorry about the email "k. ote", clicked the wrong button
Interesting. I had a 2002 WRX with almost the exact same issues: but in my
case I had to admit to myself that the vibration under hard braking only
occurred after I had been particularly rough on the brakes and then sat
there at a stop light, on a hill, with the brakes still down. In other
words, in my case it was most likely a result of uneven deposits on the
rotors. I never checked into it because right around the time that
vibration occurred, I traded up to an STi.
In terms of the noise/etc on the sharp right turn, that was also an issue
for me, and I ended up replacing a wheel bearing as a result of some damage
that my WRX sustained. Afterwards, the noise was lessened but still there,
which led me to believe it may have been something else.
Another possibility that affected me was the dust shield ended up getting
bent after driving over a particularly nasty bump in the road, which caused
a grating, metal-on-metal rasping noise until I got the shield bent back
out again where it was supposed to be. Weather seemed to be partly involved
in this, as it would disappear in the cold weather, and return when it was
35 degrees C outside. Bending the dust shield back where it was supposed to
be was a simple 5-minute job after my dealer found out what the cause of
the obnoxious noise was.
The wheel bearing was not just a noise, but also its own source of
vibration: if it's going, the mechanic working on the car told me, I'll be
able to feel it.
