Car stuck in place after washing and putting in garage - Page 2 - G35Driver

Mar 17, 2010 | 11:25 AM

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rpm&my_G35

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OP - My brakes do the exact same thing in the same situation. I wash the car in my garage (warm or cold) and leave it over night. It's happened a few times. It's just a little overnight rusting.
It happened yesterday (this morning). I washed it around 4pm at 17 C (~64F). Dried the car off with some air and MF towels. This morning...lock and pop. lol
No worries.

Mar 17, 2010 | 02:17 PM

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pfarmer

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Originally Posted by jackal2001

So yesterday I finally washed my 08 G35x after a heavy winter and lot snow and salt. It was 55 degrees outside. I washed the car, cleaned the rims using Eagle One tire and wheel cleaner and rinsed it off, dried the car and put it back in the garage.
The car sat in the garage the rest of the day and night.
This morning when I went to go to work and back out of the garage the car was frozen in its spot. When I put it in reverse and removed the brake pressure the car didn't start to roll out like it normally does. I don't apply the parking brake ever.
So I was like WTF? I applied light gas and heard something POP/BANG. The car was still stuck though. I let off the gas and then applied more gas and heard another louder POP/BANG and then the car started to roll out of the garage.
No indicator lights came on as I proceeded to drive around the block to make sure everything was OK. I came into work with no problems.
The garage never goes below 40-50 degrees.

What was this? Rusting rotors?

You may actually want to consider using the parking brake unless parked on a perfect level. The reason that if you don't with a typical auto you rely on what is often a rather weak part of an auto often called the parking claw. More than a few auto equiped cars have rolled off when parked in parked with no parking brake applied.

As far as the parking brake getting stuck one item often ignored is what I have found to be one of the primary causes of them sticking and that is the cable that activates it. The clearances within the cable sheath can be very tight and a little rusting or even dried lubricant can cause the cable to get stuck rather easily.

Perry