Help Needed

[GaryMabbuttsKnee]

ok heres the situation, my car failed the MOT recently due to defective handbrake (the only fault other than the nearside headlight was "a bit high" - result, considering the car is 17 years old....) so after thorough inspection of the entire rear braking mechanism i bought two new handbrake cables and new rear pads hoping it would solve the problem, upon fitting of the new cables the handbrake seemed to improve a wee bit, but at the retest it failed AGAIN :ffs: so i bit the bullet and bought 2 reconditioned rear callipers. these were fitted last night and the handbrake still seems a bit on the weak side, and im paranoid about it failing again. the 2nd retest is on monday so any advice/ideas will be greatly appreciated.......

Cheers

Andy

[saxokiller]

Hello gary,

i had the same problem about 2 years ago the mot station i go to gave me a few ideas on what to do and they are as follows........The first might sound a silly thing to be missed but have you adjust the hand brake cable at the lever end?if you have then your best of driving it somewhere quite a couple of fast short hard braking should help bed the new pads and discs in for ya?!

Max Res Trevor aka saxokiller

[GaryMabbuttsKnee]

the front of the 3 handbrake cables has been adjusted as tight as it can go, and trust me the pads have been bedded in properly with some "enthusiastic" driving :D the foot brake is unbelievably good, u can stand on the pedal and they just wont lock up at all - got stainless goodridge brake lines on order as well, should be fitted within the week

[Twincam.GTi]

apologies for stating the obvious but did you remember to 'turn' the piston as you pushed it back ?