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Originally Posted by Clan
The problem is the parking brake is faulty and when that last strand in the cable breaks your 2 ton car careers off down the hill and kills people or causes massive damage to other people's property . A time bomb waiting to explode .. and the worse thing is You knew about it all along and were skimping on your car maintenance so insurance wont cover you when the investigation is complete..
Your car has been trying to tell you something is wrong for a long time , you ignore it at your peril ...
This goes for an increasingly worrying number of people on here doing the same thing ...
Think about it ... ....... at least it has been documented and set in stone here now ...
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What a load of nonsense. A brake adjuster on the shoes is not the reason for a cable to break. If it breaks its done but it wasn't down to an adjuster being fitted.
And doesn't mean you skipped on maintenance.
Adding an adjuster just makes sense like 99% of other vehicles.
Good luck to any inspector in court trying to prove that because an adjuster kit was fitted was that she wasn't maintained properly.
I see handbrake cables break all the time on brake testers. Even on well maintained cars expected to pass.
If the handbrake cable on an xc90 doesn't brake on its mot trying to scrape 16% with it pushed to the very limit then it won't break during normal use.
You are scare mongering.
Xc90s are now a fair age. How many people do you know of has been prosecuted for adding adjusters rendering a vehicle dangerous.