RE: awful smell from rear brakes

[Aleksander Mierzwa <alex@matrix.com.pl>]

Bl***y idiots probably screwed handbrake adjusting mechanism at the
calipers.

Aleksander Mierzwa
Warsaw, Poland
mailto:alex@matrix.com.pl
87 Audi 5000CS turbo (mine)
88 Renault Medallion wagon (mom's)
91 mountain bike (just in case both cars broke at the same time :-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	ScHiZo [SMTP:qwe@wam.umd.edu]
> Sent:	Friday, October 03, 1997 5:35 AM
> To:	quattro@coimbra.ans.net
> Subject:	awful smell from rear brakes
> 
> Hello. I have a 93 100S and I had just gotten the rear brake rotors
> and
> brake pads replaced at a local service center. Should've done it
> myself,
> but school work is piling up and I need to graduate!!!!
> 
> Anyways. As I was driving back home I smelled a very strong and
> pungent
> odor kind of like burning rubber coming from the new pads/rotor area.
> The
> driver's side rotor was glowing bright red. . .actually was a cool
> sight. 
> 
> I know from experience that this is not a normal phenomena. What could
> be
> wrong?!! I certainly don't want to be the main attraction at red
> lights
> with glowing rotors. Could it be that the pads haven't bedded in yet
> or
> something? 
> 
> thanks in advance
> Seung Lee
> 93 100S
> Lanham, Md
>