Parking Brake Adjustment
#1
Parking Brake Adjustment
This may have been discussed but I didn't see a recent thread covering this topic.
I have been aggravated by the parking brake in the '06 since I got it. When setting the parking brake it would go all the way up (about 60° angle) and didn't hold well. The dealer wanted me to drop it off to adjust it.
Finally on Saturday I got underneath looking for a way to adjust it. Nothing.
Turns out all you have to do is pop off the boot around the brake handle and go at it with a 9mm (IIRC) box wrench. Took five minutes. Once of the tabs broke off the boot but I fixed that with some epoxy.
Now, five or six clicks and the brake holds like a champ. And no spending time at the dealer.
I have been aggravated by the parking brake in the '06 since I got it. When setting the parking brake it would go all the way up (about 60° angle) and didn't hold well. The dealer wanted me to drop it off to adjust it.
Finally on Saturday I got underneath looking for a way to adjust it. Nothing.
Turns out all you have to do is pop off the boot around the brake handle and go at it with a 9mm (IIRC) box wrench. Took five minutes. Once of the tabs broke off the boot but I fixed that with some epoxy.
Now, five or six clicks and the brake holds like a champ. And no spending time at the dealer.
#2
Re: Parking Brake Adjustment
Originally Posted by nitramjr
This may have been discussed but I didn't see a recent thread covering this topic.
I have been aggravated by the parking brake in the '06 since I got it. When setting the parking brake it would go all the way up (about 60° angle) and didn't hold well. The dealer wanted me to drop it off to adjust it.
Finally on Saturday I got underneath looking for a way to adjust it. Nothing.
Turns out all you have to do is pop off the boot around the brake handle and go at it with a 9mm (IIRC) box wrench. Took five minutes. Once of the tabs broke off the boot but I fixed that with some epoxy.
Now, five or six clicks and the brake holds like a champ. And no spending time at the dealer.
I have been aggravated by the parking brake in the '06 since I got it. When setting the parking brake it would go all the way up (about 60° angle) and didn't hold well. The dealer wanted me to drop it off to adjust it.
Finally on Saturday I got underneath looking for a way to adjust it. Nothing.
Turns out all you have to do is pop off the boot around the brake handle and go at it with a 9mm (IIRC) box wrench. Took five minutes. Once of the tabs broke off the boot but I fixed that with some epoxy.
Now, five or six clicks and the brake holds like a champ. And no spending time at the dealer.
Cheers,
rcomeau
#3
Re: Parking Brake Adjustment
Originally Posted by rcomeau
I had the same problem and had it fixed at my first oil change. I do not like the hand brake on the FEH in general. It does not have a good motion as it sometimes feels like it catches something as I pull it. If the cable is poorly routed (around tight bends or has somethong attached to it that hits something as it is tightened) I worry it will stick when I release it and drag while I drive. I now its a North American car, so the handbrake is an afterthought only for show, but I use it every time I park and it always feels like it is about to break.
I don't care for the positioning of the handle but now that it is adjusted it works great. I set mine every time before I put it in park and it has always held but before it went way up to do so. I would also get a clunking sound out of mine now and then but it is gone now.
The cable comes out of the body maybe half way down. It has a 90° curve in it but it is a pretty large radius so no tight bends that I saw. I don't think there is anything to worry about.
#4
Re: Parking Brake Adjustment
Thanks Ray for the tip.
Mine is totally like yours ( before the "fix") and it has bugged me for quite a while as I have a sloped driveway, and it won't hold the car in N on a 3% slope.
I hate spending hours at a dealer for a simple task.
I'm going to try this fix right away, and hopefully not break any tabs.
( Thanks for the heads up on that also... )
-John
Mine is totally like yours ( before the "fix") and it has bugged me for quite a while as I have a sloped driveway, and it won't hold the car in N on a 3% slope.
I hate spending hours at a dealer for a simple task.
I'm going to try this fix right away, and hopefully not break any tabs.
( Thanks for the heads up on that also... )
-John
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