Hey Guys, I've got a problem with the car making a jingling noise when I first start to move. The Honda dealer tells me it's the pads shifting in the caliper as the car starts to move, and what I hear is the spring that holds the pads into the caliper. For some reason... I'm just not buying that. I find it strange that the brakes only make noise when I release them, and I don't hear them shifting the opposite way when I apply them (they've gotta shift one way for me to hear them shift back right?).
So all I'd like to know is if anyone else has experienced something like this, and what the deal was. There's plenty of pad left and the rotors aren't warped. I do autocross, which makes me wonder if I might have overheated something and it just sticks before it releases. The car still stops hard, it's not like the brakes were effected, it just makes that annoying noise.

 

my stock brake pads made a clunking noise every morning the first time you'd use them. The porterfield pads i have now don't do this.

I think it has to do with expansion of the pad material due to heat, and then when it cools and contracts, a gap forms, so when you hit the brakes for the first time in the morning, you hear a clunk.

but you said you have a noise when you release them. that doesn't sound normal.

 

do u just ahve after market pads or do u have a whole aftermarket assembley?