warantees about to drop on sue's car, she wants to know if main stealer warantee covers the handbrake being a bit slack?! Ive never even had a car with a warantee so i have no idea!

I would suggest not

They don't cover things like wheel alignment and stuff which is an adjustment only failures.

If the cable is worn with a broken strand or two or is beyond further adjustment you could be in with a chance.

Cheers

Mark

You could ask the dealer and they may adjust it for you as goodwill. If you can prove there's a 'latent defect' with the car they are obliged to fix it but I think they'll be thinking that the handbrake is down to 'reasonable wear and tear' and as such, is not covered.

What car is it, most are easliy adjustable from inside the car now.

05 plate corsa!

i didnt expect it to be myself but you never know!

pop the gaiter up and theres a 10m nut on a thraeded bar that adjusts the handbrake

ps corsa c handbrakes are shite

Do not adjust the handbrake cable until the supposed auto adjustors in the rear drum have been manually adjusted. Tightening the cable is likely to stop said adjustors working.

Exactly as rusty nuts says.

Most hand brake levers particularly on cars with rear discs brakes need to come up a lot more notches than you might think to allow the self-adjusters to work.

The important thing is to never alter the handbrake cable tension without following the corect procedure and checking the self-adjusters are working.

[Edited on 27/4/08 by britishtrident]

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Originally posted by dan__wright
pop the gaiter up and theres a 10m nut on a thraeded bar that adjusts the handbrake

ps corsa c handbrakes are shite

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Seems like they have a serious issue with handbrke quality at the moment!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/consumer/tv_and_radio/watchdog/reports/transport/transport_20080116.shtml

I'd take it back to the dealer and get them to check the handbrake production batch number to see if it falls into the faulty batch!

its amazing how many cars and vans i see that have had the handbrake cable adjusted without resetting the shoes first, even from the manufacturers when new

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Stuart Scott bought a new Corsa in March 2007. He'd owned the car for just six weeks when it rolled for the first time. Stuart had parked the Corsa in his driveway and later found it had rolled away and hit a tree. The car rolled after being parked on a further five occasions, even after Vauxhall had examined and replaced the handbrake. Stuart is adamant that each time he has parked his car correctly and applied the handbrake.

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Originally posted by Donners90
Seems like they have a serious issue with handbrke quality at the moment!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/consumer/tv_and_radio/watchdog/reports/transport/transport_20080116.shtml

I'd take it back to the dealer and get them to check the handbrake production batch number to see if it falls into the faulty batch!

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Originally posted by bigrich
its amazing how many cars and vans i see that have had the handbrake cable adjusted without resetting the shoes first, even from the manufacturers when new

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