After parking my car for more than 30 minutes, and I get in it and drive forward or backward, it makes a terrible EEEEKKKK!!! EEEEEEKKKKK!!! EEEEEKKKK! with about a second interval between the noises. The interval decreases as I speed up and stops when I hit 15 mph. I want people to look at my car, but not for that reason.

 

somebody please tell me whats broke or whats wrong.

 

How do your pads look?

 

That will be looked at tomorrow, you see, I don't know the first thing about brakes

 

I heard of a guy once who owned a 280ZX that had quiet brakes. Someone told me he lived in Kansas or someplace with no hills, and no stop signs. I thought it was just urban legend.



Sounds like your pads are probably getting low... or, it could just be a glazed surface (pads or rotors). Either way, I'd get it checked out to make sure your pads aren't worn out. If your lucky, it's just typical Brake noise like every other 280ZX makes from time to time. Don't be too surprised if the noise goes away for a while and then comes back. Also, don't be surprised to find your pads are thinner than Honda's chances of building a cool car.

Rod.

 

My rear brakes have always made funny noises. Usually just a clicking noise. The pads don't set firm in place. Even with new rotors they click once on each revolution of the rotor as I drive slowly. Brake pad silencer (goop) keeps them perfectly quiet for a few months. Yours might be doing the same thing but vibrating instead of clicking.

 

Quiet brakes??? On a Z??? Say it ain't so!!!

Yeah, my right front "chirps" on me when I make a left turn. I can't figgure out why.

 

It's fine for my brakes to make a noise when I apply the brakes. but my brakes make noises when I'm not touching them, and now they make even more noise. The noise has progressed to a honking type of noise which is coming from the rear driver side wheel. I think the brake fluid is going to the brake caliper (or whatever it is) but the brake is not being relieved of pressure when I let off the brake. therefore locking up the brake. What would be the cost to get this fixed?

 

warped rotors perhaps... I had my brakes replaced with power slot rotors & the noise is just now getting worse

 

Parking brake cable going out! It is getting stuck partially on. Happened on both 280ZXs I've had. One of them on a friend's car got party stuck. Pads wore right through and screwed up the rotors. But, that car had nice sensitive brakes for a while.

 

Yup, same here. My parking brake stays partially engaged and drags one of the rear wheels. It only does one because the other caliper is seized in its bore and doesn't work at all. So I'm cruising around with 3 brakes which makes for some squirrely high speed breaking.

 

I took my car to the local Firestone to check out the brakes. They looked at all the pads and said they had about 10% wear on them, and the rotors were fine. They said when they drove it, that they never heard the noise, but when I started over there that morning, the brakes made the same honking type of noise from the rear brakes. They called me later and said they heard a clunking noise from the rear-end and thought that was the noise I had heard. I told them I would be over soon and when I got there they said they drove the car again and heard the noise and the only way to fix the noise is to replace everything in the back brakes, including calipers, rotors, hoses. That comes out to a total of $1056.86........I'm not kidding.........So then they said the clunking noise from the rear-end/driveline needed to be fixed very soon....I told them that the noise was only slack in it from the car having 213000 miles on it and it had been making that noise for a while now. The rearend "clunking" is only happens when you step on the gas and let off and step on the gas again in kind of a quick motion. So I am going to check the rear-end oil to make sure everything's ok. It turns out that the brake noise I hear has something to do with the parking brake, because if I set the parking brake then disengage it, it doesn't disengage all the way, but it disengages enough for the brakes not to grab plus it stops all the noise I was hearing from the brakes. So the Firestone people, in a way, did fix my car by setting the parking brake. I ended up only having to pay for gas to go over there.

 

I bet a bunch of brake anti squealing goop on the pads will fix the problem too. The parking brake probably just seats the pads again causing them not to vibrate for a short while.

 

Clunking noise? Sounds like a bad U-joint.

 

On these cars it is usually the differential mount bushings that loosens up first. Then the half shaft bushings if you have u-joints in them.

 

CLunking noise on engagement of clutch (starting to move FWD or REV) is probably bushings in the rear end that are blown out. check where the Pumpkin is mounted, and all the bushings in the rear.