Les Posted November 11, 2021 Report Share Posted November 11, 2021 My parking brake has failed mot, I have replaced the calliper (disk brake with pads does not have shoes) as it was naff. Still no joy, the calliper is auto adjust, as is the handbrake cable. I can find no way to adjust the cable or calliper manually. The different between rhs and lhs is 60% im not sure if replacing the cable will help, to be honest I never use handbrake so I cannot see it stretching since last year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 stevesmp Posted January 6, 2022 Report Share Posted January 6, 2022 Hi Les I am guessing you might have fixed this now but I have the same vehicle as yourself and had the same problem. What did work was to take the rear wheel off and rotor and adjust the small star like adjustment screw situated on the underside of the wheel hub. I adjusted this so the shoes pressed tight against the inside of the rotor with the handbrake off. Then went for a short spin, applying the handbrake at the same time. Prior to this adjustment the car would move forward about an inch when the handbrake was applied, so this did solve my problem and no issue with passing MOT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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My parking brake has failed mot, I have replaced the calliper (disk brake with pads does not have shoes) as it was naff.
Still no joy, the calliper is auto adjust, as is the handbrake cable. I can find no way to adjust the cable or calliper manually.
The different between rhs and lhs is 60%
im not sure if replacing the cable will help, to be honest I never use handbrake so I cannot see it stretching since last year.
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