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Parking Brake Lever, from MY 2008






Parking Brake Lever, from MY 2008

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 -.





- Press the lever on the 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 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 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.

- 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.