Stuck handbrake!?

Hunders · 7 Jan 2009 at 13:36

Last night after I finished work and started driving home I noticed the handbrake was stuck and I couldn't disengage it. The lever would move but there would be no resistance whatsoever, its like the cable has caught or something. As you can imagine driving home wasn't nice.

At first I thought that it might be due to the cold weather freezing the cable in place or something but it is the same today

Any ideas on what could be wrong?

Cheers.

kaiowas · 7 Jan 2009 at 13:43

Happens a lot on mk1s, i'm guessing the mk2 isn't much different.

At the caliper end of the handbrake cable there should be a rubber boot to protect the cable, once this splits/gets perished etc water gets into the cable which then freezes on cold mornings seizing it.

Hunders · 7 Jan 2009 at 14:25

Ok, thanks. I will have a look at that tomorrow. On the way into work it was nowhere near as bad as last night. I have left it in gear today at work/

oli collett · 7 Jan 2009 at 16:13

My mate's had this all week on his MR2!

Dogbreath · 7 Jan 2009 at 18:34

My Coupe had a frozen handbrake this morning, very common problem on them when it gets this cold.

L0rdMike · 8 Jan 2009 at 09:35

I had the same problem last year.