Sounds likely your pads are worn and that is the sound of metal against metal grinding your rotors. They may be able to save your rotors after they resurface them IF there is enough of them left. If not they will have to change out your pads and replace the rotors as well.

Average brake job, without rotors is around $90 here and go up from there depending on the car and if your rotors are salvageable.

IF your brakes are grinding metal on metal, then you are destroying your rotors and possibly caliper pistons depending on how long you drive it like that. I have seen people drive like long enough to cause extreme damage.

That's your worn out pads grinding. Time for a brake job now. Maybe a hundred or two hundred bucks if the rotors need replaced as they will if you keep driving it.

Why have you left it 4 weeks with possible brake problems? You are just increasing the bill and putting your life not to mention other road users lives at risk.

Your brake pads are worn out (relatively cheap to replace) and are scouring the brake discs meaning they need to be replaced as well (much more expensive)

Get it fixed before you kill someone.

Will cost you the cost of a regular brake job. Don't know the cost bc don't know the car.

If I had a mentality like yours, I would drive it until there are no rotors left and the calipers were so ground down that they had to be replaced also. Just keep on driving it, what's a few more weeks gonna matter?

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Remove one wheel at a time and inspect the brake pad thickness by looking down through the brake caliper inspection hole.

what r u wainting to fix? wainting a crash?

This just started a few weeks ago, getting progressively worse up until now. Whenever I hit the brakes, I hear a loud grinding noise coming from under the car. I can even hear it with the radio on. It's low-pitched, not high-pitched like the brakes of a bus or anything.

What's wrong with my brakes and what will it take and how much will it cost to get fixed?