’05 Accord rear left rim is very hot after drive / burning smell

Greetings all,

I replaced all 4 brakes (rotors and pads) 2 months ago. This is my wife’s car and yesterday she reported a bad burning smell when she got to work. I took the car for a ride in the evening and here are my findings:

1. There is no sound at all from the brakes while driving.
2. When braking, right before the car comes to a stop, I can hear kind of a friction noise from the brakes, similar to what you hear after you drive the car the first time after it has been parked in heavy rain for a long time, although this noise goes away later. It did not go away yesterday after about 5 miles and there was no rain.
3. The car brakes perfectly fine, no squeaking or anything.
4. Checked the parking brake in a very steep hill – the car is stopped and not rolling back.

Here’s the problem:

5. The rear left wheel rim is super hot to touch and there was burning like smell, or something similar to a smell of brand new rotors /pads when you brake them in. The rear RIGHT rim in contrast was completely cool. The two front rims where kinda warm but nothing out of the usual.

Any idea what the issue could be? I understand some warming on the rims but I doubt that any wheel should be too hot to touch when the other wheels are cooler. Doesn’t make sense.
One thing to note: while replacing the rotors and pads I flushed most of the brake fluid, meaning – replaced with fresh fluid through the bleeding valve (the “Eric-the-car-guy way” 🙂 )….except of that rear-left hot wheel because that bleeding valve was stripped and I didn’t want to mess with it. Not sure if that has anything to do with it.

Any idea what could cause it?

Thanks.

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