[z12358]

That sometimes happens on my 98 Maxima after I drive it in the rain and leave it parked for the week. During the storm couple of weekends ago, I drove it through some deep messy puddles. The next weekend, when it first started moving, it sounded like the brakes were stuck and got unstuck with a "clunk" sound. After that, for the first 10 minutes of driving I felt periodic rubbing noise -- as if something was rubbing inside the wheel. Then it went away and all was good after that.

My theory was that debris and rust from the water must have entered between the pads and the rotors. First it got baked in between, which made the brakes stuck and then it got rubbed off after few applications of the brake while driving. The periodicity of the rubbing was probably from the rotors being slightly warped by being dipped into high, cold water while hot.

Jim, can you explain why you think it's the CV joints, and is it dangerous in any way?

Thx,
Z.

P.S. I don't use the parking brake.