I get a few minutes away from home on my way to work and start to smell burning brakes. There is a nice looking Jaguar in front of me, and nobody else around. Logic tells me it's probably not the Jaguar, so I decide to pull over.
Oh yes, me smell burning brakes something fierce.
One walk around the car leads me to the right rear where quite the whisp of smoke is rolling out from behind the tire. I crawl under there and fiddle with the e-brake arm/spring do-hicky and it pops free. Continue on to work and arrive with no fire which tells me the pads released just fine. Before I left tonight I jacked up the rear to make sure the tire was spinning fine. It was.
Saturday morning I replaced both passenger side cv boots and had the parking brake set because of it. Left it that way till this afternoon when I left for work. Apparently that wasn't best idea. For some reason it didn't release like it normally does.
So now the question is, what do I do? Aside of course from not using the parking brake anymore.
The pads are Axxis Metal Masters with no more than 2k miles on them and turned the rotors when I put them on. I think my first attack will be to rough up the rotor and pads and see if I can salvage some life out of them. I'd rather not spend the money to redo the brakes on the rear axle but am afraid I cooked them too much.
Any comments suggestions? I'll get pictures tomorrow.