caliper stuck

Phishman · 03-09-2012, 06:27 PM

Not sure if anyone can help but i just took a trip up to my friends house and my car started vibrating real bad. My friend says the caliper is stuck bc tje wheel is warm. If we let it cool down will it be safe to drive home (20 miles)? Sorry about my spelling, damn phone.

ZStig · 03-10-2012, 12:41 PM

20 miles is a lot... It may destroy other brake components

Phishman · 03-10-2012, 01:06 PM

I made it home on the expressway with no stops. I wasn't sure if the caliper was stuck or not, just that the wheel was warm. Taking the wheel off today to look at it, anything in particular to look for?

Beedub · 03-10-2012, 01:08 PM

your friend thinks your caliper is stick cus the wheel is warm?? does he have any clue what he's talking about???

the rims will be warm after a drive, if its that hot you can FEEL massive heat coming from one side only and its smoking, now were talking.....

Phishman · 03-10-2012, 01:17 PM

It was significantly warmer than the other wheels. Something smelled bad too, but it wasn't red or anything. He is pretty knowledgeable.

Mirko · 03-10-2012, 01:33 PM

I had a stuck caliper on my old 330ci and drove it home and to work a few days (100-150km total) before I could get it to a shop. Car was fine. I wouldn't advise driving super long distances as the caliper was hot and you could feel the heat off it but it wasn't boiling hot or smoking.

Phishman · 03-10-2012, 03:02 PM

The weird thing is on the way back it felt completely fine and the wheel did not get warm at all. I only drive about 5 miles to work and the dealer is next door to my office, I just wondered if anyone else had encountered anything like this. I don't know what would cause the wheel to heat up. I went ahead and cleaned the wheels because there was a massive amount of brake dust on them.

prodigal_m · 03-10-2012, 03:55 PM

Sometimes a brake pad can shift within the caliper and drag against the rotor. Even if it's not sticking now, you should take off the wheel and reinstall the pads.

epbrown · 03-10-2012, 05:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Phishman

Not sure if anyone can help but i just took a trip up to my friends house and my car started vibrating real bad. My friend says the caliper is stuck bc tje wheel is warm. If we let it cool down will it be safe to drive home (20 miles)? Sorry about my spelling, damn phone.

Mine had a stuck caliper last summer, driver's side. I live 4 miles from the dealer I use, all city traffic so 30mph speeds. When I got there the brake disc was glowing, the metal was pinging as it cooled in the service area, and you could feel major heat coming off the wheel. They wound up replacing the front brakes on both sides under warranty.

Bear in mind, I'd been to the freaking dealership the week before saying the car pulled a little to the left intermittently. They told me it was my "aftermarket wheels" (BMW OEM CSLs

) and sent me home. If they hadn't blown me off blaming the first thing they saw, they could have fixed it before it got worse.

There was a buying guide about the Z4M in Car or Evo recently and they mention seized calipers as a common issue.

elerner61 · 03-10-2012, 05:43 PM

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Originally Posted by epbrown

They told me it was my "aftermarket wheels" (BMW OEM CSLs

) and sent me home. If they hadn't blown me off blaming the first thing they saw, they could have fixed it before it got worse.
.

Funny, I once had a dealer correctly diagnose stale air in a tire as vibration problem. I'd be too embarrassed to say some of he crap we hear about.

Phishman · 03-10-2012, 07:19 PM

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Funny, I once had a dealer correctly diagnose stale air in a tire as vibration problem. I'd be too embarrassed to say some of he crap we hear about.

You said correctly diagnose, there is such a thing as stale air?

elerner61 · 03-10-2012, 08:23 PM

Was fooling around about the stale air. Automobile customers have always been prone to having the wool pulled their eyes and I'm sick of dealer's trying to pull crap over on us. Every time I see a Nitrogen sales pitch I want to puke.

BruceJ · 03-10-2012, 11:44 PM

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Originally Posted by elerner61

Was fooling around about the stale air. Automobile customers have always been prone to having the wool pulled their eyes and I'm sick of dealer's trying to pull crap over on us. Every time I see a Nitrogen sales pitch I want to puke.

+1000 on the Nitrogen - may work for really high perf apps but daily driver, just hype....

Finnegan · 03-11-2012, 12:41 AM

Nitrogen.

Got 78% nitrogen in the tires right now from regular old air.

That "stale air" comment killed me! Damn that's funny.

Ron Stygar · 03-11-2012, 09:59 AM

inTgr8r · 03-11-2012, 11:44 AM

I love the line in the 4th bullet point.... "such as in... space shuttles"

Isn't that what a Z4M is???

Flying Scotsman · 03-11-2012, 11:56 AM

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Originally Posted by inTgr8r

I love the line in the 4th bullet point.... "such as in... space shuttles"

Isn't that what a Z4M is???

Yeah ,,,,,RETIRED

Phishman · 03-11-2012, 02:26 PM

Does anyone have any brake pad recommendations or are they all the same? I guess I might as well replace them if I'm going to take the wheels off.

mhughett · 03-11-2012, 03:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Phishman

Does anyone have any brake pad recommendations or are they all the same? I guess I might as well replace them if I'm going to take the wheels off.

I put Stop-Tech street performance pads last November and so far they have been great. Not as grabby as OEM pads and less dust too. Got them from Zeckhausen.

Finnegan · 03-11-2012, 04:09 PM

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Originally Posted by mhughett

I put Stop-Tech street performance pads last November and so far they have been great. Not as grabby as OEM pads and less dust too. Got them from Zeckhausen.

+1, on my second set, use them for street and track. Less grabby and less dust (not no dust but less dust). I wouldn't recommend them for advanced track guys, but for relative noobs they hold up quite well. +1 on Zeckhausen too.

Phishman · 03-11-2012, 05:08 PM

Would I need new calipers for those?

ZStig · 03-11-2012, 05:37 PM

no. oem calipers. I alsu run them. Agree that they're less grabby, yet when I was breaking them in, I did 10 HARD stops from 60mph, and didn't notice any fade

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Phishman Second Lieutenant 8 Rep 283 Posts Drives: Beige car Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Cincinnati iTrader: (0)	The weird thing is on the way back it felt completely fine and the wheel did not get warm at all. I only drive about 5 miles to work and the dealer is next door to my office, I just wondered if anyone else had encountered anything like this. I don't know what would cause the wheel to heat up. I went ahead and cleaned the wheels because there was a massive amount of brake dust on them.
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