Sticking caliper

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goldfazer
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Sticking caliper

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A year or 2 ago one of the front calipers stuck 'on' - had a lot of smoke and heat!

New caliper, discs and pads sorted it.

A few days ago the pad warning light was on for 1 journey which surprised me as the pads are fairly new and I only do about 7k miles/year.

Anyway, driving it on the m/way yesterday and I got an increasingly bad front wheel wobble. Thought I had a flat so stopped and looked. All OK. Continued the (short) journey and noticed a burning smell. When I arrived I checked the wheels and one was very hot, so seems like a caliper (same one as last time). It was OK on the journey home.

So, is there anything (maybe the auto-hold system?) that could affect this, or can it only be a sticky caliper?

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