Frozen handbrake time again

pol · Post by **pol** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 3:00 pm

-4 yesterday evening. That seems to be the point where my handbrake freezes.

Last time it happened it seemed to unstick. I drove it home slowly and had a glowing brake disk when I got home... It was still stuck this morning

I know i'm not the only one... Name and shame your car!

pol

owen080808 · Post by **owen080808** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 4:08 pm

yep, mine did this last year, glowiung disk and all, wish i had a picture of it! i'm just doing my best to not use the handbrake at all, i've seen -7 so far and fingers crossed no problems, i park on the flat and leave her in gear instead.

480_rocket · Post by **480_rocket** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 4:58 pm

I'll have to check this when I next drive mine this weekend, it used to do it all the time but I recently replaced both handbrake cables so hope that fixes it.

lee · Post by **lee** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 7:17 pm

mine too was stuck this morning. Need to get the grease out.

pol · Post by **pol** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 10:38 pm

What is it that actually gets stuck? I was guessing the cables.

pol

owen080808 · Post by **owen080808** » Sat Dec 22, 2007 11:27 pm

on mine the cables and calipers were both less than a year old, and when it got stuck the cables were fine it was the actual caliper not sliding well on the 'pins'. haynes says emphatically not to grease them, so i didn't, just cleaned them up, put them back in and did a LOT of adjusting, too slack, too tight, the happy medium seemed difficult to find, and when i did it promptly failed the mot on handbrake effort anyway, but thankfully i let the garage deal with the adjustment to pass the test.

guitarcarfanatic · Post by **guitarcarfanatic** » Sun Dec 23, 2007 10:30 am

Yeh I had this before! Just did a bit of fast driving and it unstuck and and smelt HORRIBLE! Also Glowed orange hehe. Used to be one of the quirks!

jgtynan · Post by **jgtynan** » Sun Dec 23, 2007 12:27 pm

It happened to me too the other night. -5 and as I backed out of my parking space the back end was lifting like I had left the handbrake on. They unstuck in about 50yds though. Ill have to get the grease out too.

martinholmesuk · Post by **martinholmesuk** » Sun Dec 23, 2007 1:33 pm

Lucky I greased all the cables when I did the undersill a few months ago

pol · Post by **pol** » Sun Dec 23, 2007 9:52 pm

I'll grease the discs and pads. That'll sort it.

pol[/i]

martinholmesuk · Post by **martinholmesuk** » Sun Dec 23, 2007 11:01 pm

stop you stopping

suddy · Post by **suddy** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 8:51 pm

Leave it in gear!

bbf · Post by **bbf** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 6:52 am

i have learned to leave a car on flat and in a gear. with 1 year old cables

! never thought a greased pins could do such damage - anyway I doubt a litlle about this grease: a caliper gets pretty hot when a disc is glowing red, but why it still doesnt release?
there's an error on our car (yet another): the handbrake cable coming from the bottom, so it makes an up-turn -> that's where the watter is collecting..