Hand Brake adjustment
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ydrape
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Martin1 said:
Hoping this will help you, I am not a mechanic.
You have to remove instrument lower cover LH to do step 2 of the adjustment procedure.
ADJUSTMENT
1. Remove rear wheels and tires.
2. Insert a deep socket wrench onto adjusting nut. Rotate adjusting nut to fully loosen cable, and then
release parking brake pedal.
3. Secure both disc rotors to hubs using wheel nuts so as not to tilt the disc rotors.
4. Remove both adjuster hole plugs installed on the disc rotors.
Turn the adjuster until disc rotors are locked. Turn the adjusters in the
opposite direction by 7 notches after locking.
5. Rotate the disc rotors to make sure that there is no drag. Install
the adjuster hole plugs.
6. Adjust parking brake cable with the following procedure.
a. Rotate the adjusting nut to adjust parking brake pedal operating
force to 500 N (51.0 kg-f, 112.4 lb-f) just before a full pedal
stroke of 217.13 mm (8.55 in).
CAUTION:
Do not reuse adjusting nut after removing it.
Control type Foot pedal
Number of notches [under force of 196 N (20.0 kg-f, 44.1 lb-f)] 6 - 7
Number of notches when parking brake warning lamp turns on 1
SalisburySam
Well-known member
I really like my 2012 electronic parking brake.
SalisburySam said:
+1
I never had an issue with the electric brake in the 2011, but the foot-operated parking brake in the 2015 has required adjustment several times. The cable seems to be stretching less as time goes on.
Nubo
Well-known member
ydrape said:
Does anybody get this? The instructions don't say to remove the nut, only loosen it. Is removal part of the adjustment? Is a new nut required for every adjustment?
ydrape
Active member
Nubo said:
The CAUTION precedes
Do not reuse adjusting nut after removing it.
b. When replacing parking brake cable...
Not necessary to replace the nut if only adjusting the cable.
