I recently had my 06 MDX in for an oil change. They warned me about a potential problem with my rear drivers side wheel. They said when they had it the air they could hardly turn the wheel.... I thought they were just fishing for extra work and would check it out myself before doing anything.
I drove home and grabbed my cheap infrared thermal sensor to measure the temperature of each rotor, and sure enough, my rear driver side rotor was about 100 C and the rear passenger side was about 50 C. As an aside, the next day I repeated the test but tried to mostly coast limiting as much as possible how much braking I did, and I got the same result but this time I also check the front rotors. On this occasion, all three read about 100 C with only the rear passenger being about 50 C.
I also jacked up the car on each rear side only to rotate the wheels by hand. There is a definitely a difference in resistance from drivers side to passenger side, but it didn't fell like a "huge" difference. I haven't jacked up the front yet. While the car was jacked up I test the E-brake and noted that with it depressed I can't rotate the wheel, but with it off, I can rotate the wheel.
I personally did the brakes about a year ago and would have lubed the slides etc, at that time.
As a side note which I think is totally unrelated, I periodically get the VTM-4 and Check Engine Light which might stick around for a day or two and then go away. I changed the VTM fluid about 4 years ago. Perhaps this deserves it's own thread but if you think it's related.
So my question would be... Do I have a problem at all (brake performance has been normal)? Do I have a problem with brake rotor temperatures? Do I have a problem with the 3 brakes that all read 100 C, or do I have a problem with the 1 that read 50 C?
What should I check? I was about to unbolt the calipers and make sure all the sliders were moving freely and make sure the piston moves okay.
Thanks
I drove home and grabbed my cheap infrared thermal sensor to measure the temperature of each rotor, and sure enough, my rear driver side rotor was about 100 C and the rear passenger side was about 50 C. As an aside, the next day I repeated the test but tried to mostly coast limiting as much as possible how much braking I did, and I got the same result but this time I also check the front rotors. On this occasion, all three read about 100 C with only the rear passenger being about 50 C.
I also jacked up the car on each rear side only to rotate the wheels by hand. There is a definitely a difference in resistance from drivers side to passenger side, but it didn't fell like a "huge" difference. I haven't jacked up the front yet. While the car was jacked up I test the E-brake and noted that with it depressed I can't rotate the wheel, but with it off, I can rotate the wheel.
I personally did the brakes about a year ago and would have lubed the slides etc, at that time.
As a side note which I think is totally unrelated, I periodically get the VTM-4 and Check Engine Light which might stick around for a day or two and then go away. I changed the VTM fluid about 4 years ago. Perhaps this deserves it's own thread but if you think it's related.
So my question would be... Do I have a problem at all (brake performance has been normal)? Do I have a problem with brake rotor temperatures? Do I have a problem with the 3 brakes that all read 100 C, or do I have a problem with the 1 that read 50 C?
What should I check? I was about to unbolt the calipers and make sure all the sliders were moving freely and make sure the piston moves okay.
Thanks