One Time Grinding & Screeching Sounds

[Gschaef]

Wondering if anyone else has experienced this. I have a 2024 XL. Less than a year and less than 4,000 miles. No issues or recalls. A couple of weeks ago I was in a remote area and drove a short distance to a store. Came out and started to drive away slowly in the parking lot and heard some grinding and screeching noises. It sounded like metal on metal going forward or reverse and when I used the brakes. It seemed like it might be related to the wheels. I got out and checked the underside. Couldn't see any issue. I started driving slowly again and for maybe 25 feet it sounded much louder and much worse, like a metal part dropped from the frame and was dragging on the asphalt. Checked underneath again and everything looked normal. Still in the parking lot so I did a couple of quick start and stops to try and narrow it down but it got better. Got back on the road and tested it for a few miles and it went away. Next day I made the 160 mile drive home with no issues since then. The dealership was not helpful. Anyone else have anything like this happen?

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[dochawk]

a few years ago, I thought I heard the warning track on the brakes, and took it in, only to be told it wasn't, and I had plenty of life left.

Months (a year?) later, I thought I heard it again, with the same results.

And then we found the cause the hard way, when the tranmission tore itself apart on the way to the mechanic, and couldn't be rebuilt. . .

 

[Alwright]

Yep. Had the same thing happen on the interstate. You had a rock stuck between your rotor and brakes. You can remove it by taking the tire off or just keep driving till it grinds down and falls out. Might gash up your rotors though if you don’t remove it

 

[Gschaef]

Yep. Had the same thing happen on the interstate. You had a rock stuck between your rotor and brakes. You can remove it by taking the tire off or just keep driving till it grinds down and falls out. Might gash up your rotors though if you don’t remove it

Thanks very much. It made me think a piece of metal like a a screw might have come loose in a wheel and then worked its way out. I had been in the mountains for about a week and mostly parked on dirt roads so a rock or some other object makes sense. The noise all happened in a parking lot so hopefully no damage done. Thanks again for the response.

 

[shrek]

Wondering if anyone else has experienced this. I have a 2024 XL. Less than a year and less than 4,000 miles. No issues or recalls. A couple of weeks ago I was in a remote area and drove a short distance to a store. Came out and started to drive away slowly in the parking lot and heard some grinding and screeching noises. It sounded like metal on metal going forward or reverse and when I used the brakes. It seemed like it might be related to the wheels. I got out and checked the underside. Couldn't see any issue. I started driving slowly again and for maybe 25 feet it sounded much louder and much worse, like a metal part dropped from the frame and was dragging on the asphalt. Checked underneath again and everything looked normal. Still in the parking lot so I did a couple of quick start and stops to try and narrow it down but it got better. Got back on the road and tested it for a few miles and it went away. Next day I made the 160 mile drive home with no issues since then. The dealership was not helpful. Anyone else have anything like this happen?

I second it was a rock. Had a small piece of gravel (new gravel added to driveway; You rent gravel; not purchase it) and it somehow was lodged in between the rotor and the Pad. Pair of extra long bent tip needle nose got the lil bugger out. Limestone gravel is soft but it makes one hell of a noise scraping against the rotor. Sounded almost the same as the squealer indicator on brake pads. But with only 16k on the odo; I knew what it was immediately. But if you hear it again, check it out. It could be something more heinous like @dochawk unfortunately had happen. Had I not found the lil rock I would have been worried.

 

[dochawk]

It could be something more heinous like @dochawk

yeah, "heinous" is a good word for i.

I ended up paying $3,500 to have a care transmission installed on a vehicle that was only worth $3,500. But with two kids supposedly near learning to drive sage, I figured it was worth it for the recoil mass . . . and then one went partway through and never finished, and the other is actually out with a driving instructor right now now. But I guess still not bad for the few extra years we go out of ti; it would have been an inconvenient time to buy a car.

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