Parking Brake Cable: Service and Repair

Parking Brake Cable, through MY 2007

Removing

- Release the parking brake.

- Remove the center console.

- Loosen the adjustment nut - 1 - far enough until the respective cable - 2 - can be removed from the compensator bracket - 3 -.





- Pry off the spring clip - 1 -.





- Press the lever on the brake caliper - 2 - in - direction of arrow - and disengage the brake cable - 3 -.

- Remove the Torx bolt - 1 - and then loosen the clip from the parking brake cable - 2 -.





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





Installing

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





- Press the lever on the brake caliper - 2 - in - direction of arrow - and hook in the brake cable - 3 -.





- Press the spring clip - 1 - onto the parking brake cable.

Parking brake cable - 2 - must be installed free of tension between the bracket on the brake caliper and clip.





- Therefore, only now install the clip bolt - 1 - onto the trailing arm.

- Install the parking brake cable - 2 - into the compensator bracket - 3 -.





- Preload the parking brake cable using the adjustment nut - 1 -.

- Adjust the parking brake. Refer to => [ Parking Brake, Adjusting ] Adjustments.