I have an 85 535i. The last couple weeks I have notice my car has been shimmying bad after driving it for 5 mins or so. It got real bad at about 45mph. I then realized it was because my passenger caliper was seizing. I was driving today and noticed the burning smell of the friction and was trying to get it home. When I would apply the brakes, the passenger brake was not engaging. I was at a light and noticed it was smoking and I pulled it off the road to cool it off. When I started the car, I backed up and the brakes were almost totally gone. I pulled back in the spot and saw fluid on the ground. It was ATF from booster resevoir. When I depressed the brake the fluid was flowing out of the top of the resevoir. The clutch works perfectly. It is a 5-speed manual. But when I depress the brakes, it goes to the floor and the atf spurts out the top of the resevoir. I opened the master cylinder resevoir and noticed it was full and some fluid had been force out of it. I am assuming I overheated my brake system and seized it. Has anyone seen this problem before?
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18 years ago