I started to hear a loud squeaking and creaking noise every time I applied my brakes, so I immediately suspected that my brake pads were wearing thin. Sure enough after raising my car with a jack, and taking the tire’s rims off, I saw that the rotor was uneven and rusting. Lucky for me, it wasn’t paint that was eating away at my rotor, it was just that the brake pads were not evenly being applied to the rotor. The pads weren’t even wearing thin, so all I had to do was replace the brake rotors on my 2002 Buick Century, which cost about $25 for 2 new rotors.