twelvea

I was driving around and did a some what hard stop. 1 minute later I got home and smoke was coming out from my rear driver side brakes. I took water and sprayed it. Does anyone know what happened? The brake pad are new from Bendix and I had the rotors resurface like 2 weeks ago.

twelvea

I drove the car to work and it was fine,

Hagis

Brakes work by converting forward motion into heat, they get really hot. If you run the mountains and get on your brakes alot the rotors can get so hot they glow. Smoking brakes is nothing to worry about, the brakes on my brothers SE-R used to smoke all the time, it was cool. As long as you have decent brake fluid and don't get rediculous fade, you're fine.

Ghettostamps

Smoking brakes isnt cool, its something you really don't want, i don't supposed you recently changed your pads? There could have been some kind of fuid on your rotors, if anything the fronts take most of the load, its odd the rears are smoking.

wikd240

smoking anything on our cars aint cool... less you are smoking someone while driving... any way... smoking brakes can present a problem... the heat can and will transfer to the fluid causing it to boil and then become useless...
if that is the only wheel that was smoking leads me to believe that the caliper is applying more force than the others... in the back it is not as noticable as the front... i would suggest that you check you brakes and make sure that there is no unusual wear on that wheel... is the pad thinner than the other side??? if this is the case it could mean that the caliper is actually sticking a little when you depress the brake pedal... if it gets bad enough one day the caliper will get stuck out... dragging that brake until it damages something...
a cheap solution is... take your car to midas... have them do a brake inspection tell them the rear wheel smokes under hard breaking... let them look at it... dont buy nuttin as the brake inspection is free...have them tell you what is wrong with it and then you fix it...

Hagis

k sorry i'm retarded

twelvea

thanks guys. ima take it to my brothers shop. Big bro to the rescue.

reilly2

check ur brake caliper, if ur brakes are smoking it maybe that ur brake caliper is seized up and wont release ur brake pad

calidrifter

nope 240sx's have a notorius reputation for awesomely fast break fade (overheating of breaks.) You may wanna try some cooling solutions like what 12aine did with his car.

98cwitr

only time ive ever seen brakes smoke is when my friend left his e-brake up in his G20 and drove it for about 3 miles