Handbrake/brake query ?

[stevefield]

I am told that the handbrake on all Cerb's are a bit naff ,Is this true or is it just the one I drive.Also is the adjustment something I can do myself without to much trouble.While thinking about brakes my car suffers from very bad squeal under heavy breaking is this the norm.

Cheers

steve

[Rosso Paul]

When I had my Cerbera I was regularly having to have my handbrake adjusted. It wouldn't even hold the car on my modestly sloping drive. Never did get it working properly and was told ' yea - they're all like that!' Ended up always parking in gear on even the slightest slope.

Dont' know about the brake squeal though, mine seemed OK.

Changed to a Griffith now - handrake's terrrific!!

Paul

[AndyTather]

Handbrake on the cerbera seems to be like most supercars, pretty bad. I had a F355 for a few days and the handbrake was next to useless on that as it is on my cerbera.

You maybe able to get it adjusted, but just don't forget to put into gear when parking on a slope !!!!!

As for brake squeal, mine squealed for months until its service and they seemed to cure it.

[leszekg]

Yep, the handbrake on by Cerbera 4.5 is crap too and apparently they are all like that.

I have squeeling brakes too when the brakes have warmed up and applying firm pressure to the pedal. It'll be looked at as part of the service it's going in for next week.

[phockit]

Handbrake's not good - starts off barely acceptable after a service and gets worse within a few hundred miles. I think Joospeed may do a mod that helps.

Brake squel is standard due to the hard compound pads - plenty of discussion on this in other threads.

[p7ulg]

Yep Handbrake on my Cerbera was pretty useless.It used to be operational for about two days after each service. Handbarake on the tuscan was much improved!

[p7ulg]

or even handbrake for that matter

[stevefield]

Thanks for replies nice to my car isn't unique!


Steve f

[stevefield]

insert:-know! (something's up on this thread)

[daver]

The handbrake on the Cerb will never be that good simply because of the mechanism that actually applies the friction at the rear. It's hard to describe it but it's a couple of little thingies(!) that act on the inside of the mounting bells of the rear brake discs. (the situation is worse when the bell/disc assembly is warm and has expanded).

The reason the little force that can be exerted keeps disappearing and the handbrake "keeps needing to be adjusted" is to do with the adjustment side of things. This is a plastic barrel that threads onto the handbrake cable outer casing, and is used to take up the slack. The plastic barrel takes the force of you yanking on the handbrake each time though - and ultimately it's poor little plastice threads strip. The mod is to put a tiny hose clip (or two) around the cable behind the plastic jobbie to stop it slipping. This requires abnormally long chimpanzee style forearms and double-jointed wrists to achieve though.

Good luck,

Dave.

[whatever]

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The handbrake on the Cerb will never be that good simply because of the mechanism that actually applies the friction at the rear. It's hard to describe it but it's a couple of little thingies(!) that act on the inside of the mounting bells of the rear brake discs. (the situation is worse when the bell/disc assembly is warm and has expanded).

The reason the little force that can be exerted keeps disappearing and the handbrake "keeps needing to be adjusted" is to do with the adjustment side of things. This is a plastic barrel that threads onto the handbrake cable outer casing, and is used to take up the slack. The plastic barrel takes the force of you yanking on the handbrake each time though - and ultimately it's poor little plastice threads strip. The mod is to put a tiny hose clip (or two) around the cable behind the plastic jobbie to stop it slipping. This requires abnormally long chimpanzee style forearms and double-jointed wrists to achieve though.

Good luck,

Dave.

I knew about the thingies and so on, but I never realised the rest of it was so crap -- thanks for enlightening me. But could they not have designed something that was a bit better?

It doesn't help, I suppose, that the lever is relatively high making it difficult to get good leverage on it (especially for the vertically challenged).