Frozen Brakes?

[mrurbanite]

Hello peeps,

Got in the car this morning, car warmed up fine, went to drive away, and it feels like the brakes are still on!!! Parked it and had a very cold walk to work!

Can't be the cold....can it?

Any ideas!

Cheers!

 

[skahigh]

pads could have bonded to the discs, moving off and then applying the brakes would probably have been enough to correct this.

 

[si-mate]

^^^ what he said.

When I had my LCR this happened quite often and sometimes (particularly after washing the car or heavy rain) you would have to give it a quite a few revs to unstick them.

 

[mrurbanite]

Cheers guys, I will try that later, I did drive to the top of my road and back this morning, the hand brake feels a bit loose, it may even be the cable for this, let you know!

 

[crezz]

some times its the hand brake cable that freezes. my yellow beeza always used to do it. i always found it best to put it in reverse as it soon un sticks. hope this helps.

 

[mrurbanite]

Wicked, I will give that a go when I get home!!! Nice one!

 

[mrurbanite]

Cheers crezz, it was a frozen hand brake cable, nice one. Car was fine this morning, now I know if it happens again not to freak out! Can go and get those extra xmas prezzies now, ha ha!

 

[crezz]

glad to hear it, looks like we found another 'you know when youve got a mk2 ibiza'

 

[andy_wmb]

I had the same happen to mine on friday! I had visions of new brake calipers and the rest, but it thawed out by the afternoon.

I dont blame the poor wee car for not wanting to move because we had tempatures of -7.2 C on friday morning up here in!