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[snoopstah]

On one journey over the weekend the car was feeling very sluggish - I noticed it quite near to home, so drove it back, but it was immediately clear that the brakes were sticking, as it wasn't rolling on hills in neutral! Anyway, got it back and you could have cooked eggs on the back right brake disc - it was almost glowing Left it to cool and probably because the disc contracted it stopped binding, and has been fine since - amazingly, a couple of hard brake tests reveal no judder, so it doesn't even seem to have warped the disc, although I can't believe I'm that lucky. Anyway, the journey where it did it was after the car had been parked on a slope with the handbrake on quite hard to hold it - and I've noticed a similar symptom before when it was parked on a slope, although it seemed to 'unstick' after about 500 yards of driving - in that instance the car suddenly shot forward! So I'm guessing it's something that's occuring when the handbrake is pulled on more than normal. I need to book it into TMS tonight for its 40k service so I'll get him to have a look when I take it in, but I wondered if anyone had any ideas of what the problem might be?

[Crusoe]

could be a few things snoop, probably just a partially seized calliper that just needs some lubrication, could be made worse by excessive heat build up if the pads are getting thin. Sure you know it's better to leave the handbrake off if the brakes are still hot when you come to stop, not always possible if you are on a hill and in a hurry though.

http://www.vx220.org...1&st=&p=

might help

[snoopstah]

Brakes weren't even slightly hot, I had my Mum in the car at the time so very much driving like Miss Daisy

[Crusoe]

might be worhth checking the cable movement then, see the thread link above. But probably just calliper needing lubed up though could need rebuilt to get it fully un seized.

[Jim_Cross]

I just had to have my secondary handbrake cable replaced in my last service after one of the rear calipers seized. Only £47 + VAT IIRC so not too bad

[Jase_MK]

I just had to have my secondary handbrake cable replaced in my last service after one of the rear calipers seized. Only £47 + VAT IIRC so not too bad

Me too - just the part alone (the cable) cost me £80 with TMS though . Also had a seized caliper (seized 'off' though, not 'on') which is another £400 just for the part. Add on a few hours of labour and I lost track how many hundreds £££ the poxy brake cost me

With mine, the piston was still moving freely (so the pedal brake worked fine) but the twisty cable operated bit for the handbrake had seized.