RE: awful smell from rear brakes

[christopher_bender@fmc.com (CHRISTOPHER BENDER)]

     These guys ROYALLY F'ed something up, and the caliper is clamping hard 
     on the brake disc at all times.
     
     I would immediately stop driving it, call the shop who did the work, 
     and insist that they pick the car up with a flatbed and make it right.
     
     Do not drive like that, for fear of causing further damage to the 
     vehicle, or possibly boiling the brake fluid from the excess heat, and 
     having reduced brake performance.
     
     Now how important was it to graduate after all???
     
     
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     Date: Fri, 3 Oct 1997 00:35:10 -0400 (EDT)
     From: ScHiZo <qwe@wam.umd.edu>
     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.