If you bought the budget pads, you will smell them
wheneve you do heavy breaking.  The VW pads are far
superior...speaking from hilly san francisco

Sean Birkner wrote:
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> Is it normal to be able to smell hot front brakes after doing a brake job? If
> so, for aproximately what time period? Front pads and disks, rear shoes and
> wheel cylinders, and brake lines all around were changed.