Member Since: 29 Jun 2024
Location: Suffolk
Posts: 3
Park Brake Fault
I recently purchased a 2010 Discovery. I’ve never had a car with an electric parking brake before, so I’m unsure on what the normal operation should be like.
If I try to use the handbrake switch, either to engage or disengage the brake, I get Park Brake Fault on the screen in the instrument cluster. I think I can hear the motor when doing this sometimes. If I drive off without touching the switch, the brake disengages. When switching off the engine, the brake engages fine automatically. When driving slowly, I can hear what I thought was a stone stuck in the rear brakes, could this actually be to do with the handbrake system?
I’m waiting for my diagnostic scanner to arrive. In the meantime, is there a likely cause of the above symptoms? I’ve tried looking at various threads and forums but not found someone with the same situation yet.
Thanks.
29th Jun 2024 11:39 am
PROFSR G
Member Since: 06 Mar 2017
Location: Lost
Posts: 5043
Likely the hand brake shoes/mechanism need servicing and if you're lucky all should be OK after that.
The rattle you are hearing could be a stone, or as is more likely one of the shoe retaining clips has let go and is being chewed by the rotating drum section of the disc.
There's a service guide in the Wiki section for the brakes on D3&4's which if you follow correctly will help you resolve these issues. yµ (idµ - eAµ) ψ=mψ
29th Jun 2024 2:55 pm
Tim-LR
Member Since: 29 Jun 2024
Location: Suffolk
Posts: 3
Thanks. I’ve also had the fuel gauge randomly stop working. Further research suggests the two problems may be related, something to do with corroded connections? It is giving error U2002-01 ‘Switch general electrical failure’.
It came from a dealer so I think my first course of action is let someone more experienced with modern Land Rovers than me have a look at it first!
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