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Location: Blackpool
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EPB Emergency Release
Anybody now how to release the EBP in a manual D3 in the event it fails and stick on
11th May 2014 6:55 pm
Tufty
Member Since: 13 Jul 2010
Location: UK
Posts: 480
Yep.....
Pull up the panel behind the handbrake switch (or the complete panel) find a surprisingly thin steel cable with a loop on the end, pull until you think it's going to snap then pull harder. If that's not hard enough and it doesn't release get a screwdriver, jack handle or similar put it through the loop and pull harder
11th May 2014 7:13 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
Member Since: 11 May 2006
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As Tufty sez. If you're not thinking "something's going to break" you're not pulling hard enough.
11th May 2014 7:17 pm
salmoner
Member Since: 09 May 2014
Location: Blackpool
Posts: 156
Thanks guy ..just picking brains in the event its did fail
Why didn't they make em with a normal hand brake
11th May 2014 7:48 pm
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11th May 2014 8:46 pm
stchris
Member Since: 13 Oct 2013
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As DSL says if you think you're about to break something, your nearly there!EGR blanked and plumbing removed
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11th May 2014 10:28 pm
Grunders
Member Since: 30 Apr 2011
Location: Manchester
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And when it releases it goes with a bang.... From memory, i only had to do it once a couple of years back...If it ain't broke... Take it apart anyway, how else you gonna find out how it works
11th May 2014 10:36 pm
HughMartin
Member Since: 30 Mar 2008
Location: Aberdeenshire
Posts: 751
I once had me EPB that wouldn't release and, having read the manual, I pulled off the panel behind the handbrake and no emergency release could be found. I phoned the service manager at a franchise dealer who said that the emergency release cable was actually on the passenger side under the trim. He also said to only pull it as a last resort as it is a big job to reset. He suggested I leave the car, lock it and come back 10 minutes later after it had "gone to sleep". I did just that and the EPB has been faultless since.
I suggest you don't go back to that dealer as he does not know what he is talking about, the cable is under the little panel behind the park brake switch.
You sometimes have to search a little as it gets pushed down out of the way.
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12th May 2014 9:32 am
Cliff2ord
Member Since: 04 Mar 2012
Location: Bankfoot
Posts: 33
Emergency release cable
I'm trying to release my stuck EPB. I've found the emergency release cable behind the handbrake switch and as described above pulled as hard as I can but no joy.
Does anyone know of a plan 'B' in the event of the cable failing to release? I just can't pull any harder! Can I access the cable anywhere closer to module?
11th Jan 2015 3:53 pm
Bobs
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I have posted this before and its meant for something else but it did get me home when mine froze ....
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11th Jan 2015 3:58 pm
Disco_Mikey
Member Since: 29 May 2007
Location: Dundee, Scotland
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I have bent the jack handles trying to pull the release. They can be tight...
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