[NON LSX] - Broken E-Brake, how should I fix?
05-30-2011, 07:26 PM
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[NON LSX] - Broken E-Brake, how should I fix? SCROLL DOWN TO DASHED LINE TO SKIP LONG READ
Hi, today I was going to the beach with my girlfriend.
Since today is Memorial Day and also the first day it was 93* (yesterday it was ~50*) we decided to take her car because I wasn't really feeling like doing stop and go traffic in a manual.
Long story short it was a 50min drive to the beach, another 50min trying to go from the free parking lot to the paid parking lot (1/32 mile) if you are familiar with Montrose beach in Chicago. So im VERY VERY glad I took her car.
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Instead of holding my foot on the brake for 5-10 min at a time I decieded to use the parking/e-brake to hold the car.
When I pulled it up and we were still creeping forward barely. So I pulled it up 1 more notch, heard a snap, and it popped out of the socket hanging a little sideways.
I released it and it went down fine. But I don't know if I snapped one of the cables.
What is the easiest way to check without ripping out the center console and physically inspecting the cord? If I jack the car up can I see anything from the bottom. Im pretty sure they are wrapped with rubber.
On a side not, the car drove fine didn't pull to any side but the brakes did make a noise when applied sometimes and when driving from a stand still (Typical metal on metal worn pad noise). This noise only happened randomly and I don't know if it was priorly there.
The car is a 2001 maxima with 85k.
Thanks for any insight
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Side note: The brake sucked from the beginning, idk the history of the car. A snapped cable wouldn't be in tension would it? If its just laying in a released non rubbing state I might just leave it.
Hi, today I was going to the beach with my girlfriend.
Since today is Memorial Day and also the first day it was 93* (yesterday it was ~50*) we decided to take her car because I wasn't really feeling like doing stop and go traffic in a manual.
Long story short it was a 50min drive to the beach, another 50min trying to go from the free parking lot to the paid parking lot (1/32 mile) if you are familiar with Montrose beach in Chicago. So im VERY VERY glad I took her car.
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Instead of holding my foot on the brake for 5-10 min at a time I decieded to use the parking/e-brake to hold the car.
When I pulled it up and we were still creeping forward barely. So I pulled it up 1 more notch, heard a snap, and it popped out of the socket hanging a little sideways.
I released it and it went down fine. But I don't know if I snapped one of the cables.
What is the easiest way to check without ripping out the center console and physically inspecting the cord? If I jack the car up can I see anything from the bottom. Im pretty sure they are wrapped with rubber.
On a side not, the car drove fine didn't pull to any side but the brakes did make a noise when applied sometimes and when driving from a stand still (Typical metal on metal worn pad noise). This noise only happened randomly and I don't know if it was priorly there.
The car is a 2001 maxima with 85k.
Thanks for any insight
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Side note: The brake sucked from the beginning, idk the history of the car. A snapped cable wouldn't be in tension would it? If its just laying in a released non rubbing state I might just leave it.
Last edited by -DLS-; 05-30-2011 at 07:33 PM.
05-31-2011, 03:54 PM
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I doubt the cable broke. I dont know how the ebrake is set up on those, but I would imagine that with the brake applied and it was still creeping forward, then the pads used were worn out. Maybe from it being pulled just a little bit more, it used up all the slack available and pulled the brackets apart.
