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Old 12-26-2007, 03:13 PM
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Default brake pads smell

hey everyone as some of you may know I did my brake pads the other day. I did it on the rear driver side tire and after driving it for about 10 mins that wheel will start smelling like burning brake pads I believe. Any ideas of what it is? Are they just getting broken in or is the rotor warped? I have heard that it could just be them breaking in and could take like 2 days.
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Old 12-27-2007, 01:17 AM
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pretty sure its a leaky brake fluid line everyone ill edit this reply tommorow and let anyone who cares know.
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Old 12-27-2007, 11:51 AM
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Default RE: brake pads smell

Smell is normal for a few days.
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Old 12-27-2007, 05:35 PM
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Default RE: brake pads smell

the smell is definately normal for a few days after putting brake pads in. Brakes are not cured like they should be at the factory anymore, whenever we did brakes at the shop i was at for a while, we'd take the car out and get the brakes hot to the point they were just about smoking....
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Old 12-27-2007, 09:38 PM
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well the problem was that the brakes were partially engaged the entire time that piston had to be compressed again and it is fine now.
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