Rear brakes engaged in cold weather

[mpeters6@rochester.rr.com (Marc Peterson)]

Ah, the curse of the 16V rear calipers...

They tend to freeze in place.

Marc
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sean Clark" <sjclar00@hotmail.com>
To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 12:51 PM
Subject: Rear brakes engaged in cold weather


> When it's really cold, such as first thing in the morning, my car drives
> like the parking brake is still engaged, after a few miles, the resistance
> goes away and everything seems OK.  Today I smelled what I guess were the
> brakes being burned to hell on the rotors.  What is the problem here?  I
> just got the rear pads changed but this problem occurred last winter as
> well.
>
> Thanks,
> Sean Clark
> 88 16v Scirocco
>
>
>
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