Weird locking or seizure of wheels in the cold???

Ok every time I try to move the truck in the morning after it’s been below freezing,
One of the rear wheels seems to lock up and drag?? I’ve got to wait and change into reverse and wait and keep shifting about before it will release? It happened 4 mornings in a row on a recent ski trip... I took to the dealership for the 10k service and they said they could find nothing wrong with it? Anyone in cold climates experienced this I have an AT 2017 Trd off road. I’ts pretty worrying to be honest

 

Several people on here have reported the same thing. Do you use the emergency brake?

 

As I live in so cal it’s only below freezing if I’m skiing but still it’s a major concern

 

The parking break?

 

Hand break?

 

Wish someone at the dealership was worth there salt. No offense but not the brightest tools in there

 

Warm brakes, wet snow, melts into water + ebrake set, = shoes frozen to drum in morning.

 

Ahhhh of course cheap ass Toyota using drum brakes in a 2018 truck

 

Sounds like the Hand Brake is hanging up on your truck.

 

thanks you tho!

 

It’s more then the handbrake.. fairly sure it’s a bit of both handbrake and the wheel freezing to the drum

 

I have had this happen on a few different vehicles. Like everyone said it’s the drums. Leave the e-brake off when its below freezing and you should be fine

 

My dad set the ebrake on his old Ford after a creek crossing years ago up hunting. -15 drove in a circle for an hour with 1 side hung up, I believe they had to build a small fire under the truck.

 

Hahaha that’s intense

 

Rear drum brakes freezing overnight,pretty common for me in winter. Just wait until you get a lot of snow in your front wheels, then melts, then freezes. Talk about unbalanced tires.

 

When it's below freezing I'll just leave the truck parked in gear, no e-brake. Sometimes I have to add a bit of extra gas to get the truck to break free, whether it's from frozen brakes or even tires, but never had anything drag.

 

its not an emergency brake thing.. most of my daily drivers that had rear drum brakes have done this when sitting over night in the cold and i don't use the emergency brake.. just the drum brakes freezing over night...

 

Mine does this too, it's definitely the ebrake I can reproduce it consistently, but if I don't use it it never happens. I think in mine it may actually be in the e brake line not the wheel itself because a heat gun to a certain part of the line for a bit unsticks it.

 

Just throw it in 1st and slam that pedal.