Should I be worried???

[chris.hunt22]

Just had a quick once over today on the Disco as its nearly MOT time, I have noticed that the back brake pads have ground about 1/4" into the back hub!!!  this is on both sides, how thick is the hub at this point, am I not far off losing a wheel??  I presume already this will be an MOT failure, what is causing it, I suspect the calipers holding the pad are either worn or damaged letting them slide about (I lost a rear pad 12 months ago altogether!!)

let me know what you think please!! :shock:

[hairyasswelder]

I think you just answered your own question  
New disks and calipers  
Think the calipers are worn allowing the pads to move. The damage to the 'hub' I presume is actually to the inner of the disk? so would assume the disk would part company NOT the wheel  
Either way its time to change them.

Steve

[chris.hunt22]

Now I think of it, yes it probably is the disc :roll:  better look for some new discs and 2nd hand calipers then I think!! :shock:

[thermidorthelobster]

I'm trying to envision this but can't.  The callipers are on the outside of the disc, and the hub is on the inside.  So how can the brake pads be rubbing on the hub?  :?  Do you mean the part of the disc that sits over the top of the hub, which the wheel studs go through?  If so then it's the disc that'll end up severed.  I'm not sure how this would happen as the callipers should contain the pads.  Like Steve said, new callipers, discs and pads.

[Evilgoat]

When I changed (me and Datalas) OddBod's caliper on the rear the pads were a goos 1.5mm into a brand new brake disk. Theres a protrusion that holds the pads in check and it seems to just wear off. We had 2 bloody great cable ties in there for the day while he looked for a new caliper.

[Tig]

I have just replaced mine for exactly the same reason.
A replacement pair of calipers (including vat) is about £96
Dead easy to replace and it gets rid of that annoying rattle you hear every time you run over cobbles or speed humps.
Time taken = 1 hour including bleeding the brakes.

[gtomo2]

must be  Lnd rover thing as i had the same on my range rover it cut right though the rear n/s hub til the disc parted company with the hub. Yea its new caliper time and wheel hub

[Range Rover Blues]

One alternative "field fix" is to put a 3rd pipn through a hole you drill in the outside edge of the brake pads, there is a small lug you can do this through and it stops the pads dropping through the calliper and hitting the disk.

[chris.hunt22]

Thats the kind of advice I like!!  

[lurch_917]

this is a sure signe of new discs and callipers had it on mine not a hard job as long as the brake pipe dosent seize  in the caliper mine did had to get the local garage to nock me a pipe up @ £5 a side

[muddyjames]

Dead easy to replace and it gets rid of that annoying rattle you hear every time you run over cobbles or speed humps.
 

Maybe that is what is cloncking everytime i break and a faint rattle as i went over the old sodbury car park field!?