arafas

Hello, I own a 2018 gs350 f-sport and I noticed a creaking sound up front from the suspensions over speed bumps and at low speeds if I turn the steering back and forth, I am taking the car in saturday, but I was wondering if anybody had a similar issue and I can use that in the dealership.

thanks

ItzFilyO

Can u check if ur front brake rotors are 2-piece or one piece? That might be causing the creaks.

arafas

Definitely 2 piece design. Looks like that. What do I have to do?

ItzFilyO

I think that one has a design flaw and makes a lot of noise. Mine was replaced for free under warranty with the new one-piece design and now all noises are gone.

arafas

O ok awesome I will find out this saturday. Thanks

charley95

I put ceramics on my 18 at 1100mi. So far so good, no creaks or squeaks at 3000mi.

arafas

what ceramic did you use and is it better then stock?

charley95

Car Quest WearEver Platinum from Advanced Auto Parts. Don't know if it's better or not but I don't have to worry about excessive brake dust from factory pads.

arafas

Insane amount of dust in 1 week.

charley95

It will take ya more time to R&R the wheels than it'll take to replace the pads. I'm not an aggressive driver so I really couldn't tell any difference between the stopping power of the two different pads.

peasodos

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I had a low speed creak on my 2013 450h, turned out to be the hood. If you press on the hood with two fingers and it creaks, that's your problem.

I just adjusted the rubber hood stoppers in the engine bay so that they apply even pressure to the hood when closed.

signdetres

Curious to know what types of issues are caused by the 2-piece rotors? I have them on both of our GS F-Sports and no noises/creaks. One has 55k miles, the other has 5k.

ItzFilyO

On my 14 GS with those rotors, it creaks at low speed, especially when turning the wheel. On my 18 RC with the same rotors, it creaks every time I come to a stop and rolling slow like when trying to find a parking spot. It's loud and embarrassing but the car stops fine.

arafas

Yep mine creeks mainly low speed and also over speed bumps or when you move the steering back and forth.

arafas

Update, the car was at Lexus dealership Saturday. I told them about the problem. Lexus adviser tried to call the tech to hear the issue before they work on it, never came. I also asked them not to wash the car because I am OCD and they use some huge wooden brush and i had problems them scuffing my previous car. After 6 hours car they call me told me car was fixed 30min before they close on Saturday, I went to get the car asked them what they did, they said the car had excessive glaze on rotors so they cut the rotors resurface the pads. I didn't realize you can resurface the pads. The car has 2500 miles no way has that much glaze, anyways I asked how the cutting will affect life of the rotors and pads they told me not a lot. Also they washed my car even doe I told them 5 times and they didn't fix the issue. So then I told them they didn't fix anything. So adviser called the tech he came and he is like I thought you meant squeaking noise I was like i never said squeaking I said creaking. So he heard the sounds said sounds like suspension issue, so the car is there. I am waiting to call the service manager. Because I don't like the fact that they cut my rotors and how it will affect the wear mileage. Should I ask them to put the new pads and rotors?