Preventing the rear brakes from freezing?!

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Dempo

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had this problem alot myself.Tought it was the callipars ceased but later i was told it was just the hb cable frozen.
 
MoscowGT

MoscowGT

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your hb cables are probably worn and moist gets into them cousing it to freeze. replace them with new ones and dont wash the car and put it on hb when its cold. We have -20 - 30 here but I never expirienced this problem... My friend does have the same thing as you but his cables are worn...
 
gavgts

gavgts

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h gee sorry i didnt reply well mine been on there 3 months and it has lasted but i would assume every 6 months or somit would be fine
 
malcolmgt

malcolmgt

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had this prob two days in a row.. grr.

first day handbrake locked on and the wheels locked so left it.

last night left it in gear and put the handbrake down and when i got to it this morning i couldnt even lift the handbrake!! :(
 
azerty

azerty

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there are still rooms for new comers ;)

frost, well, I've just fixed my heater this month finaly as chassi was stripped, it has been bypassed for at least 2 years. that tells you how much I need it :p
 
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Dane_Bristol

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azerty said:
there are still rooms for new comers ;)

frost, well, I've just fixed my heater this month finaly as chassi was stripped, it has been buypassed for at least 2 years. that tells you how much I need it :p
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You guys turn on the heaters when it gets too 20 Degrees C and people start complaining its cold ! lmao. We are lucky to see 20 degrees here in the Summer :(
 
malcolmgt

malcolmgt

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Haha this is true.

anyways..

is there anything i can do to stop it freezing up.. i noted ppl saying go to garage to get them to do something..

:confused:
 
Beaker

Beaker

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Either Take the handbrake cable off, keep in doors on the radiator to dry it out and then pump it full of grease or buy new cables. It is a shitty design flaw with a lot of Toyotas from this period. Theres not really anything you can do about it. If it happens to your car, all you can do is replace the cables and hope it wont happen again
 
Monkfish

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For the love of all things that taste of toffee, don't spray the brakes with WD40! Yes, it is a water dispersal agent (Hence its name), but it is also a very good lubricant.

Lubricant + brakes != good idea! :eek:

If you have washed the car recently, or if there has been heavy fog/rain and it freezes, you will probably find the wheels frozen, even if you don't put the handbrake on. Brakes sticking tend to be because the pad has frozen to the disk. Uma doesn't suffer from this problem because she has teh drumz of powah!!111!



sdutton007 said:
I've been having this problem for the last few days too - its just my rear right brake though...

Ages ago, shortly after I got my starlet, i had problems with all 4 brakes getting excessively hot (but the back right was the worst) until it wouldnt physically move and i had to wait 20 minutes for them to cool down until I could drive it again..... also warped my discs to fcuk :mad:

then I got told by a mechanic that the handbrake ratchet in the rear-right caliper had seized, so replaced it with a 2nd hand one I bought off someone on here, and until now I've had no problems

This morning, i left my house and then like 2 mins later my rear-right wheel just started skidding down the road past all the mums walkin their kids to school, I must have looked like a right twat lol!!!

Anybody got any ideas? I don't like driving my car like this - can't help thinkin that if i take a corner and the brake decides to lock on then im gonna spin out into a 3 tonne 4x4 coming the other way!
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Check the condition of the return spring on the top of the caliper. You may find it has worn or broken., meaning the caliper will stay on when the handbrake is released if it is a bit stiff. You can get new spinrgs from Toyota for a couple of quid each.
 
domglanzaturbo

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i had this problem this morn. not been the only time i have had this problem about 4 times since having the Glanza, its well annoying especially when you gota be somewhere lol tried the boiling water trick did the job so was all good.
 
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GTdan

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this happened this morning to me and when leaving from kellys tonight, rear brakes stuck on and handbrake was down, anyway, some de icer later. seemed to ease it off and normal service resumed as such, car parked in gear with handbrake off.
 
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Mr LCA

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thank god i found this topic. i drove to work this morning and between gears it was if i had predictive breaking LOL. got to work (only bout 2 miles) and calipers were steaming. left the hb off tonite tho :)
 
danturbo4311

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Haha this happened to me to 5 o clock this morning on way to work, was to tired couldnt be bothered to get out, to cold, luckily it unstuck after 2mins of driving, but left in gear for tonight aswell:p
 
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