Greets,

Yesterday while driving I noticed a scraping noise coming from the brakes, after further investigation. It seem the rear driver side brakes is seized or something. I tried raising the parking brake and releasing it a couple of times to see if that would get it out of its locked state. Only the driver side is doing this the, the passenger side is fine?

Need troubleshooting suggestions. I've never taken apart the rear brakes before.

thanks

 

if it is a constant rub, it could be that they seized... a bad caliper, maybe? if it is a scraping only when you brake... you need new pads (and depending on how bad the scrapes are, new discs as well).

 

What's the procedure to un-seize a seized rotor, or at least attempt to un-seize it if possible?

thanks

 

seized rotor means the CALIPER is bad (and seizing up to the rotor). If you don't address it soon, then you will replace rotor, caliper, pads, the works... $$$.

You can see if the seizing is possible to release, but most times the caliper is bad and you have to replace it.