Park Brake Failure in D3

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Originally Posted by justinc

Certainly frequent cleaning and adjusting of the park brake is very important in these vehicles if used offroad or in dusty conditions a lot, but really regular cleaning and adjusting is a normal service procedure with EPB equipped vehicles as far as I am concerned.

It isn't a difficult task to clean and adjust, but replacing the actuator etc after the system crashes is, and is expensive too:(

JC

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Just had to perform my first manual epb release this weekend. Easy process (with a little help from aulro :) )
My question is, what's next? Is it just a clean up & adjust? Or am I up for a new actuator? (if so, how much?)
Car will be going to Ritters for a pre Fraser Island service in a couple of weeks anyway, black tape over the flashing light 'til then?

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Originally Posted by Rohan

Just had to perform my first manual epb release this weekend. Easy process (with a little help from aulro :) )
My question is, what's next? Is it just a clean up & adjust? Or am I up for a new actuator? (if so, how much?)
Car will be going to Ritters for a pre Fraser Island service in a couple of weeks anyway, black tape over the flashing light 'til then?

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Rohan, have a look at Disco_mikey's how to on Disco3:
DISCO3.CO.UK - View topic - How To - EPB repair/Unjam + Relatch

Might save you a few dollars.

Quick epb update, dropped the car off to my local car washer this morning (very, very lazy I know), picked it up after a quick inside and out wash, not only did they get rid of half an inch of high country dust from the inside, but hey presto, the park brake now functions perfectly! No idea how! Don't really care! Just very happy I don't have to break any bad news to S.W.M.B.O. :)

hello, just a quick thanks to everyone for this great wealth of resource, my D3 that I've owned for 2 weeks did the screams today, but thanks to AULRO I am still mobile!!!