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anyone else had this:

if the cars on a hill pointing upwards the handrake holds fine,
if its pointing downwards the handbrake dosent hold,

it passed its Mot like this with no problem but ifind it anoying,
The handbrake isnt high up like most 406s ive seen hand-brake sits just below top of seat belt clip which someone told me that is dosent look like Low- shoes,

anyone else had this how did you sort it?

thanks,inadvance,

Does your car have discs or drums on the back?

dogslife wrote:Does your car have discs or drums on the back?

Discs mate,

the discs are in Good condition no warps or Fades,

Mine was a bit like this too, (though my handbrake did pull up a fair way), when I stripped it down, I found one of the linings had come off a handbrake shoe.

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dogslife wrote:Mine was a bit like this too, (though my handbrake did pull up a fair way), when I stripped it down, I found one of the linings had come off a handbrake shoe.

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Bloomin ek mate,
Looks like you got your moneys worth outa the shoes and pads,
My pads get replaced every 6mth in every car ive had,

the pads on the puggy still look good but im changing them shortly for what they cost its not worth running them past half way,
theres no slack in the handbrake cable, and my mate Recons. the shoes where replaced 6-7mths ago along with one of the brake cables, so ipresume the shoes shouid be fine still,

Do these 406s have a brake compensator or in other words used A load distributor ?