Member Since: 03 Jun 2016
Location: ceredigion
Posts: 53
Help with EPB - Handbrake
Help needed.
My handbrake/epb is stuck on. I've tried the cable release in the centre console , but either can't pull it hard enough or something else is broken. I get screeching noises and errors when trying electronically.
I've read the epb unjam procedure and guess I may have a jammed module.
However I'm stuck in a small track (just wide enough for car) up hill near my house so am unable to jack up to work on car or would want to on such a poor track.I cannot currently move the car with the locked wheels due to the surface of the track and on front wheels trying to drive
Some questions
1. If I were to cut the handbrake cables would this release the brakes ?
2. If I could eventually move the car, jack it up and release the epb module jam would this release the brakes or do I need to release the brakes first ?
Suggestions greatly appreciated ?
Nigel
2nd Sep 2018 7:43 am
Bardley
Member Since: 02 May 2018
Location: Hertfordshire
Posts: 437
Loop the jck handle thro', or something similar, and pull...
1. Cutting the cables may or may not release the brakes. The jam can be mechanical within the drum, the arms on the shoes are particularly susceptable here. The pivot tends to seize.
Best bet on the track you’re on is to try that cable release first... and investigate later.2011 MY D4 HSE
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2nd Sep 2018 8:02 am
tooslow964
Member Since: 03 Jun 2016
Location: ceredigion
Posts: 53
Bum, so no guarantee that cutting cables will release
Still trying with release cable, need more shredded wheat !
looks like it will need to be neighbouring farmer with tractor to drag me into the open !
2nd Sep 2018 8:12 am
Bardley
Member Since: 02 May 2018
Location: Hertfordshire
Posts: 437
Cable takes some force to release.
The drums looks like this..and the arm.is this one- but the other end has the pivot.
Member Since: 03 Jun 2016
Location: ceredigion
Posts: 53
Quick update,
Unable to release brake with cable. So farmer neighbour with large tractor summoned to see if we can move car slightly off the track (used for field access). Anyway, showed him brake release cable, he tried but to no avail. So we connected a strop to pull me out. I started the car and gave one last go on the park brake (had read somewhere - hold down for 5 secs, turn off and hold down for further 2 secs). Well pushed the lever down, normal release noise and brake came off.
So drove car home with view to looking at brakes later. Have removed fl8 fuse as a precaution and left brake off
No idea what has actually happened but am mobile again
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