Parking brake adjustment

[Clan]

Originally Posted by theseriojca

You're most probably correct, Clan, and the adjusters are not the 'ideal', or 'absolutely correct' solution to the problem.

But spending £7 and one hour resulting in a working parking brake always beats removing old cables, buying new genuine ones, running them under carpets, around seats, through the floor, under the car and only then maybe achieving the 'same' result - an MOT pass in this case.

Not trying to be cheap, but adjusters are the way to go for me. Of course, after new discs/shoes are fitted and everything else inside the wheel works fine.

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 ...