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Model specific boards => Golf mk2 => Topic started by: gavharris on 18 December 2010, 13:04

Title: Need Your Help!!!!
Post by: gavharris on 18 December 2010, 13:04

Hi guys

Really need some help, due to the freezing sh!tty weather my rear brake keeps freezing on in a morning, and i cant move my car, ive been told its my handbrake cable thats freezing and not much i can do with it.

Does anyone else have this problem or has anyone got any ideas that will help me out?
Anything would be appreciated, by the way its a 1990 mk2 gti

Thanks

Title: Re: Need Your Help!!!!
Post by: Ben Lessani on 18 December 2010, 13:25

Either stuck callipers or frozen cables, do a search, been covered thousands of times.

The key is to not apply your handbrake during winter.

Title: Re: Need Your Help!!!!
Post by: Reasty on 18 December 2010, 14:05

+1 if where you live is flat (not on a hill) then dont put the handbrake on and leave the car in gear so it dosnt roll. :wink:

Title: Re: Need Your Help!!!!
Post by: Thom89 on 18 December 2010, 14:16

Light a bonfire under your car, to thaw it out...

Thom

Title: Re: Need Your Help!!!!
Post by: The Mighty Elvi on 18 December 2010, 14:49

Get an empty washing up bottle and fill will hot water.  Squirt over caliper and cable.

Title: Re: Need Your Help!!!!
Post by: danny_p on 19 December 2010, 15:28

if its cold and i have been driveing tough much wet and likely to frreze hard  i'll often apply the handbrake lightly while driveing allong to get the brakes warm so they dry out and the pads don't freeze to the drum/disk

Title: Re: Need Your Help!!!!
Post by: rubjonny on 20 December 2010, 10:22

release handbrake then get underneath and have a look (obviously chock wheels if on a slope  :grin:) if the cables are all loose in the caliper levers, then its the calipers that have siezed. if the cables are still all tight to the levers, then its the cables.  cables pretty easy job to change, undo nuts at handbrake end then drag em out. main dificulty is the cables siezing into the tubes under the tunnel, or the cables sticking into the holders on the calipers.