Q: Can't figure out the sounds coming from my car.

asked by on August 15, 2017

I'm having clicking and humming sounds coming from brakes when I apply it. I have fixed multiple things that I could think of that would fix the problems but nothing has worked.

My car has 140000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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