Back Wheel won't rotate

Skuxx

I have a '02 Peugeot 106 and when I went to drive it today, the back wheel on the drivers side would not rotate at all, it was just scraping along my drive. I don't have a clue what it could be, i don't think anything should have seized up as the car is driven everyday.......


Any Ideas?

pred racer

your handbrake is stuck/seized. I presume you have drum brakes at the back?
Normally a decent belt of a hammer(on the drum with the wheel off) will free it up long enough to get the shoes changed.
or the cable is stuck somewhere which can be a bit more difficult to fix.
or if you have disc brakes on the back, either a cailper has seized or a stone is stuck between pad and disc.
Take the wheel off and have a look...
if it was the rear bearing you would have heard the noise long before now!

Skuxx

pred racer wrote: »

your handbrake is stuck/seized. I presume you have drum brakes at the back?
Normally a decent belt of a hammer(on the drum with the wheel off) will free it up long enough to get the shoes changed.
or the cable is stuck somewhere which can be a bit more difficult to fix.
or if you have disc brakes on the back, either a cailper has seized or a stone is stuck between pad and disc.
Take the wheel off and have a look...
if it was the rear bearing you would have heard the noise long before now!

Thanks I'll check it out and see.....

Avns1s

Possible that a bit of the lining of the brake shoe has broken off and jammed between the remaining lining on the shoe and the drum itself!

Try "rocking" the car, i.e. driving forward until the pressure comes on the stuck wheel , then back and so on. It may release.

Then its wheel and brakedrum off time, I'm afraid to fix the problem!.

CreepingDeath

pred racer wrote: »

your handbrake is stuck/seized. I presume you have drum brakes at the back?
Normally a decent belt of a hammer(on the drum with the wheel off) will free it up long enough to get the shoes changed.

+1

I had an old Mazda 323f, and had driven it through a few inches of water at one stage. It drove fine, but during the night the back wheels had locked up.

An AA guy came along, took the hub caps off the back wheels and gave the wheels a good knock with a decent hammer. Freed it up.

colm_mcm

use a block of wood between the wheel and hammer it you have an alloy, and remove the wheel trim if you have trims.

Muckie

Same thing happened to the Mrs Clio, the rear brake shoe had falling

apart inside the drum and become wedged. Take off the wheel, drum

and replaced with new brake shoes. Hope yours just needs a "tap" with

a lump hammer to loosen.

blackbox

It could be the handbrake cable that is seized rather than the shoe/drum mechanism. I had this problem with an old Fiat. Easy to check as the cable should go slack at the drum when the handbrake lever is released.