E-brake freezing
When it is about 25 degrees F or lower my brakes freeze. When I engage my e-brake ( not tight at all maybe two clicks ) the brakes will freeze within an hour. The e-brake goes down fine from inside the car and when I wiggle it up and down it seems smooth and normal. When I try to take off the brakes are still engaged, takes about an hour to relise even if the car is warm. I had my e-brake cable loosened and had it looked at and was told it was fine. So I'm starting to think this is a caliper problem? Anyone else have this problem?
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Gotta be something rusted/binding. Could be the cable too...
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maybe its just the moisture in the air mixing with the freezing air and is just binding the brakes... u have anti seize?
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I just had the same problem.
Basically you probably have air in the abs pump that is freezing. You need to hook vag-com to bleed it. Put the car in your garage or something so that you can defrost the air bubble and then youll need to do the bleed. http://www.ross-tech.com/vag-com/cars/absbleeding.html Then you'll have to do a caliper bleed. My left back caliper is the one that is stuck so thats what i'll have to bleed. I'm just waiting for my cable to come. |
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Originally Posted by codymack43
(Post 1161803)
Basically you probably have air in the abs pump that is freezing.
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thats what i'm saying. The moisture involved in the air bubble lol
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try anti seizing the caliper sliders... you should do this anyhow if you change your brakes...
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You use brake lube (basically grease) on the caliper slides, not anti-seize (though that would be better than nothing).
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well whats wrong with anti seize my father is an ase cert tech and hes been useing it for the better part of 20 years and has never had a problem or a comeback i guess thats just my personal preference and i know what works from my experiance
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