Parking Brake Cable: Service and Repair

Parking Brake Cable, from MY 2008

Removing
- Release parking brake.
- Remove center console.





- Loosen adjustment nut - 1 - far enough until respective parking brake cable - 2 - can be disengaged from compensator bracket - 3 -.





- Press lever on brake caliper - 2 - in direction of arrow and disengage brake cable - 3 -
- Press the retaining tabs together - 1 - and remove the parking brake cable from the bracket on the brake caliper.





- Remove the parking brake cable - 1 - from the clamping tabs first and then completely from the bracket - 2 -.





- Disengage parking brake cable from bracket - 1 - and pull hand brake cable out of guide tube - 2 -.

Installing





- Slide parking brake cable into guide tube - 2 - and engage it in bracket - 1 -





- Insert the parking brake cable - 1 - through the opening and then clamp it on the bracket - 2 -.





- Press the parking brake cable through the bracket on the brake caliper until both retaining tabs - 1 - engage.
- Press the lever on brake caliper - 2 - in direction of arrow and hook in the brake cable - 3 -.

The parking brake cable must be installed without tension between the bracket on the brake caliper and the bracket on the trailing arm.





- Engage parking brake cable - 2 - into compensator bracket - 3 -
- Pre load parking brake cable using adjustment nut - 1 -
- Adjust parking brake.