Smoke from drivers side wheel area!!

[Alex_95TSI]

Ok so i was going to replace my drivers side axle, but i decided not to because the outer end of the axle was frozen to the hub...

I took off and re torqued everything that is in this faq http://www.vfaq.com/mods/CVboots.html (i stopped before i could take out axle from hub).

So take it for a spin around the block and try braking hard and turning hard to make sure nothing is acting funny. I walk outa my car and i see FAINT smoke coming from in between my spokes of rims.. I was thinking hmm thats funny i was braking so hard that they started to smoke? I go the opposite side and notice they arent smoking!


Any ideas why this is happening?
Possible for wheel bearings to be smoking?//!?!

I ended up replacing the boot with a quick split universal type boot and i made a mess with grease all ofer the effin place so im hopin it is the grease that is causing the smoke..

 

[Omega]

You probably got grease on the rotor and therefore pads. Replace the pads (they don't work well with lubricant on them) and clean the rotor with some solvent.

 

[khsdm]

yah that is most likely it, happened to my borher, just clean the rotor and get new pads. should be good to go.