Thread: Electric Brakes and Mud

Dear All, thought I'd share a recent experience for your potential benefit.
The electric brake on my 2008 D3 began screaming and would not unlock. Next day managed to get it to unlock, took it to the Darwin LR service guys and they nodded wisely at me and said LR had recently brought out an alert for them to tell them this was a reasonably common fault, and after they adjusted a few things gave it back 'fixed'.
Without the long story - it was not fixed, which I discovered the next morning when the fault re-occured. Unfortuntaley, beinga Saturday, the service department was not open, and I was due to drive to Alice Springs that afternoon. So, when the brake eventually un-locked, I left it unlocked and drove South using chocks until I could get it into the Sutton Motors in Alice Springs, who are LR dealers, and who turn out to have a lot more knowledge about them than the guys in Darwin.
There is a fault in the electric brake which you would normally only expect to see at about the 60,000km point, not the 12,000km point I am at now. The root cause of my problem was the amount of mud we have around Darwin, which gets up into the brake calipers and clogs it all up. The electric brake can't force the calipers to move in all the mud and gunk, hence the screaming noise and the locking on. Took an hour to pull everything apart (many thanks top the guys in Alice Springs, as I didn't need the stress of a locking hand-brake right at the start of my holiday to visit Uluru and Kings Canyon), and then he had to readjust the brake cables etc and I was good to go again.
Hence, for those unfortunate enough not to have experienced too much rain and mud yet (stand-fast the poor guys on the East Coast who recently got way too much), if you have been driving in mud and the hand-brake screams as you try to unlock it ,and it takes you ages to actually get it unloicked, ask the service guys to look at pulling the unit apart to clean out the mud - my unit was apparently full of it.
Hope that helps some of you out there. I'll pass on my info to the guys in the service department too, for the locals here in Darwin.
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its not hard to pull the rotors off to get to the park brake, its just that there is a proses to put them back on agen an set them back, im shour there is a thread on here telling you how to do it, but if you realy like i could pm it to you,