{"id":55027,"date":"2018-02-17T11:04:29","date_gmt":"2018-02-17T16:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/?p=55027"},"modified":"2018-02-17T11:05:33","modified_gmt":"2018-02-17T16:05:33","slug":"brakes-are-stuck-on-ford-fiesta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2018\/02\/brakes-are-stuck-on-ford-fiesta","title":{"rendered":"Brakes are stuck on Ford Fiesta Zetec diesel (2007)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/2007-ford-fiesta-zetec-diesel.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-54575\" src=\"\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/2007-ford-fiesta-zetec-diesel-300x219.jpg\" alt=\"2007 Ford Fiesta Zetec Diesel\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/2007-ford-fiesta-zetec-diesel-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/2007-ford-fiesta-zetec-diesel.jpg 578w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My car has been stood for a couple of weeks and now I can&#8217;t move it. It feels like the breaks are stuck on. Could it be that the breaks have seized? If that is the problem what would I expect to pay for vehicle recovery and repair, obviously this would be a ball park figure.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Brakes are stuck on<\/h3>\n<p>It is possible that the <a href=\"\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/brakes.html\">brakes<\/a> are seized. If it is just the park brake, you should be able to move the vehicle is reverse a bit easier. Or possibly rock it forward and backward a few times. The brakes shouldn&#8217;t be too seized in just a couple of weeks. If the engine revs when you put it in gear, then it may be a transmission issue instead.<\/p>\n<p>Cost of recovery would depend on the company or individual that is towing the vehicle. And then at a worse case scenario for the brakes, it would include brake calipers, pads and rotors. Ball park $300 &#8211; $400(USD).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My car has been stood for a couple of weeks and now I can&#8217;t move it. It feels like the breaks are stuck on. Could it be that the breaks have seized? If that is the problem what would I expect to pay for vehicle recovery and repair, obviously this would be a ball park&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2018\/02\/brakes-are-stuck-on-ford-fiesta\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Brakes are stuck on Ford Fiesta Zetec diesel (2007)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14875,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[21351,9699],"class_list":["post-55027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-repair-questions","category-ford","tag-brakes-are-stuck-on","tag-fiesta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14875"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}