Red hot Rotors

[H3nightrod]

We have had a great deal of snow here in Chicago in the past few day. So yesterday when I got to work the parking spaces were very limited. Coincidently the only parking spot available was the one with the snow pile. Parking on it was not a issue. 12 hours later when I wanted to leave I had a little bit of a hard time since all four wheels were off the ground. After a few min of back and forth and plenty of skinny pedal I was free. It was all funny and we had a good time kicking up snow and hearing the Alpha engine roar at high RPM.

While doing so I made sure the Traction Control was off and I kept a close eye not to go too high on RPMs. However when I was off the snow pile I walked to passenger side to find my rear rotors red hot. They were glowing and even had a small flame beginning to burn.

IS THIS NORMAL?????

I just got new front disk and pads in the front before New Years.

Any Ideas?

 

[4speedfunk]

No. Not normal. Put some new pads on the rear and make sure your floater pins are not frozen.

 

[digglesworth]

Here's what I thought..... The button on the console is for "Stabili-trak" not traction control. The only way traction control is disabled is by engaging the brakes (push brake pedal, even slightly)... If this is in fact correct, you turned off the "Stabili-trak" and gave it hell. The traction control was still applying brakes to whichever wheels it felt had wheel slippage. Mainly the wheel that was getting smoked... Just my .02 and a decent chance I'm wrong.....

 

[SuperBuickGuy]

I baked the first set of brakes on my Alpha when I didn't turn the stable-trak AND traction control off before I went wheeling in the snow (it requires 2 different operations) traction control is turned off by pressing the TC button and releasing. Stable track is turned off by holding the TC button until it dings at you (10s, IIRC). Alternatively, you can turn the traction control off by putting the vehicle in 4lo.

and with that said, using the TC to get out of a stuck is pretty amazing - it requires a soft throttle and gentle persuasion.

 

[digglesworth]

Is there a notification for traction control being off? When I hold the button I believe the little icon pops on in the cluster and a notification comes up on the DIC saying STAB OFF... I've never seen anything for traction control being disabled....