I was driving my 93 Golf tonight and a really bad smell started to come in the car. I stopped, and sure enought the front right wheel was really hot and a smell of burning rubber was coming out of it. I assumed it was the brake calliper, and limped it about 5 km back home (where father in law will fix it).
When I got home, the rotor was literally glowing red.
I am right to assume the calliped is fully seized and needs changing? Not being terrribly mechanically inclined myself, the glowing red rotor didn't seem like a good thing. Will the rotor be potentially damaged as well?
I was driving to the autoparts store to look for something for my next question(see next post).....
Thanks Glenn