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Excessive Handbrake Travel


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If the Delta is the same as the 08 on Bravo or Giulietta, then you remove the rear covers of the centre console and that reveals the handbrake mechanism and there's a 10mm nut on the short handbrake cable.

It's good practice to loosen off the cable and drive the car for a few days to get the calipers self adjusting mechanism back to operation.

After a few days, adjust to no more than 4 notches, hopefully it will all work out.

If you have to change the rear brake pads, just be aware that the left hand caliper is also left-hand thread to wind back in!

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Just to update this, I fitted new rear brake pads to my wife's Delta and to find the lever/cable adjuster (you can't wind back the calipers until you take the pressure off the cables) you need a 4mm allen key socket and a long extension to remove the bolt at the bottom of the bottle cooler in the centre console, remove this and the feed tube to access the 10mm adjuster beneath, you will need a ratchet spanner and the dexterity of an ambidextrous, double jointed, piano playing midwife to get at it,but it can be done!!!!
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