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Parking Brake Cable, Disc Brake






Parking Brake Cable, Disc Brake

Removing

- Loosen the wheel bolts.

- Raise the vehicle.

- Remove the wheel.

- Release parking brake.

Vehicles with the Highline center console

- Open the cover on the rear storage compartment.

- Remove the mat from the storage compartment.

- Loosen the adjusting nut - arrow - until it is possible to disengage the parking brake cable - 1 - from the compensator bracket - 2 -.






Vehicles with the Basis center console

- Remove the mat from the rear storage compartment.

- Loosen the adjusting nut - arrow - until it is possible to disengage the parking brake cable - 1 - from the compensator bracket - 2 -.






Continuation for both vehicles

- Press the lever - 2 - located on the brake caliper in - direction of arrow - and disengage the parking brake cable - 1 -.






- Squeeze the tabs - 3 - and remove the parking brake cable from the bracket - 4 - on the brake caliper.

- Unclip the parking brake cable - 1 - from the tabs - arrows - on the brake - 2 -.






- Remove the parking brake cable - 1 - bracket - 2 - on the rear axle - 3 -.






- Disengage the parking brake cable - 1 - from the bracket - 2 - and pull it from the guide tube - 3 -.






Installing






Install in reverse order of removal. Note the following:

- Slide the parking brake cable - 1 - into the guide tube - 3 - and engage it in the bracket - 2 -.

- Slide the parking brake cable - 1 - through the grommet - 2 - on the bracket located on the rear axle - 3 -.






- Carefully clip the parking brake cable - 1 - into the tabs - arrows - on the bracket - 2 -.






- Push the parking brake cable - 1 - through the bracket - 4 - on the brake caliper until both tabs - 3 - engage.






- Press the lever - 2 - located on the brake caliper in - direction of arrow - and engage the parking brake cable - 1 -.

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

- parking brake cable - 1 - into the compensator bracket - 2 -.






- Pretension the parking brake cable using the adjustment nut - arrow -.

- Adjust parking brake. Refer to=> [ Parking Brake, Adjusting, with Disc Brakes ] Parking Brake, Adjusting, with Disc Brakes.