OK, if anyone is still reading this...

I pulled into the parking lot at work this morning, and as I was braking to pull into my spot, I heard this repeating clicking kind of noise. GREAT! So on my lunch hour I drove over to the closest brake shop (the same chain that resurfaced the rotors on Monday, but a different store). They took a look at it and said they didn't hear the sound, but maybe it is chatter from not replacing the pads, but that my brakes looked fine. I drove away and the sound was still there. I did discover that it only makes the sound if I am lightly braking. If I stomp on the brakes from 40mph without downshifting, it doesn't make the sound. And the brakes are still working.

What do you guys think? Pad chatter? Something else? Me going crazy?

 

just drove home and it's still making the noise. It doesn't do it when I am braking in reverse. is that weird?

 

No it's not weird...it just means that your pads are unevenly worn and are "dipping" while you brake...

 

I had similar problem when I was replacing pads on 924S many years back. The pads were from NAPA. I had done many pad replacement jobs prior to this and after and never had this problem.
I think the pads were a little thicker than supposed be. No matter what I did to make more clearance the caliper did not fit over. In the end what I did was, , , you can laugh, , , I installed one new pad and one old pad on one wheel that time. A few hundreds miles or a thousand miles later I removed old-old pads and replaced with other half of new pads. The first set of new pads were worn enough that there was enough gap to install second half of new pads.
I had tested brake before I took the car on the street each time, so I was not going to hit nobody in case of an emergency. The brake performed fine every time.

 

honestly, as a last resort, i use the garage floor to resurface pads. it makes them pretty smooth, but not totally smooth, and takes off a fair amount of material, so you might try that.[&:] just rub it around in circles.

 

im pretty sure i kno what ur problem is here. When u depress ur brakes it depresses them with the worn pads. You see the black circle on this caliper? You need to compress that with the C clamp. The new pads are much thicker than the old worn ones. By compressing that, youre making more room for the new bigger pads. Thats why the new ones wont fit. Try that and let me know how it works for you.

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im pretty sure she did that. it said something to that effect in there.

 

Is the procedure different on a Civic than domestics to change the pads? I always place the pads into the caliper, then fit them over the rotor and slide the caliper into position.

 

there is a little bracket that the caliper bolts to, and you stick the pads in that (so they are on the disc) and then slide the caliper over them.

 

OK, got it. So there is a difference in replacing Honda pads versus domestic pads.