Handbrake Button

[AntB]

All,

Little issue this morning!... Filled up with Optimax as you do, went back to the car, started up, took handbrake off and the button came off from the handbrake!!

I was able to poke the button back in, but it doesn't stay in and the handbrake now doesn't click up and stay there, you pull it up and if you let go it releases!...

Any one know what's happened here? Although I can put the button back in it just doesn't stay. The long spring also comes out as well as the rubber washer.

Any help appreciated.

Anthony

 

[zcacogp]

I can't help, but I have seen the same problem (on a car I looked at with a view to buying; suffice it to say that it wasn't "immaculate" as the vendor claimed). Apparently it is an easy fix, although I don't know any more than this.

Does it bayonet in? (As in, if you push it back into place and turn it, does it stay put?)


Oli.

 

[Mike_Pollock]

Got a spare at home - will look later
Mike

 

[AntB]

ORIGINAL: A9XXC

Got a spare at home - will look later
Mike

Good Man!!!.. So how do they go back in (and then stay in!) ?
A

 

[Mike_Pollock]

Hi Ant

Simple - they screw in, slightly awrward, you have to push it against the spring and the end of the spring tends to dig into the button, making it feel like it shouldn't screw on, but it does.

Well I've learnt something today

Hope that helps

Mike

 

[AntB]

ORIGINAL: A9XXC

Hi Ant

Simple - they screw in, slightly awrward, you have to push it against the spring and the end of the spring tends to dig into the button, making it feel like it shouldn't screw on, but it does.

Well I've learnt something today

Hope that helps

Mike

I see.. well I will go and give that a go I think.. I have the button, spring and washer.. I see the button has a whole up the centre of it so guess that's where it screws in.. Will give it a go - do you have a spare should the thread or something be knackered on mine if I need it?

Thanks very much indeed!

A

 

[Mike_Pollock]

My spare is cos my ratchets are worn, but try Sulzeruk on here or most breakers if necessary.

Mike

 

[AntB]

OK - just been and tried.. Conclusion - the thread in the button is knackered.

You can screw it on the spline without the spring, but the moment you pull it, or put the preasure of the spring behind the button, the button comes off.

So, new button needed... Wonder if still available from an OPC??

Sorry Mike, didnt get the above, does that mean you do or dont have a spare?? []

 

[AntB]

I see that porscheshop do Alloy ones:
http://www.porscheshop.co.uk/acatalog/porsche_944_interior_trim.html

Dunno if I want Alloy tho..

 

[pauljmcnulty]

Dunno if I want Alloy tho..

Try Exeter PC, it's the sort of thing that might be available for pennies.

 

[zcacogp]

ORIGINAL: pauljmcnulty

Try Exeter PC, it's the sort of thing that might be available for pennies.

It might.

Or it might be absurdly expensive, making a hand-cast one in solid gold look like a veritable bargain ... []

(My money is on the latter. Or that the handbrake in only available as an assembly, at even more exorbitant expense ... )


Oli.

 

[pauljmcnulty]

Or it might be absurdly expensive, making a hand-cast one in solid gold look like a veritable bargain ...

(My money is on the latter. Or that the handbrake in only available as an assembly, at even more exorbitant expense ... )

Yep, it's a complete lottery. Armrest hinge, I've seen silly prices on fleabay but the last one I bought from Exeter was less than a tenner delivered. Sunroof cogs, change from a tenner. The resistor thing that controls heater speeds, re-mortgage the house. Dash trim, amazingly cheap.

Always worth a call first, though. If nothing else it gives you the base price to haggle over with breakers. I'd also add my usual caveat; if it's broken through aging, the chances are the one from a breaker is likely to be old as well. Fine if it's easy to fit, but I can't understand spending a weekend removing a dash to fit a 20-year-old heater matrix, for example.

 

[Mike_Pollock]

I need to keep mine - but there are loads in breakers and thats where I'd go
Mike

 

[AntB]

Called Exeter..

It was a whole £5 incl postage to me (with PCGB discount)!!! Common stock as aparently they do wear over time..

You cant get much better than that can you []

 

[zcacogp]

ORIGINAL: AntB
It was a whole £5 incl postage to me (with PCGB discount)!!! Common stock as aparently they do wear over time..

You cant get much better than that can you []

Ummm, free, delivered in person by a troupe of Nepalese virgins in skimpy bikinis, with a £50 Amazon gift voucher and a letter of thanks from Ferry Porsche himself?

Now that would be better! []


Oli.

 

[AntB]

ORIGINAL: zcacogp

ORIGINAL: AntB
It was a whole £5 incl postage to me (with PCGB discount)!!! Common stock as aparently they do wear over time..

You cant get much better than that can you []

Ummm, free, delivered in person by a troupe of Nepalese virgins in skimpy bikinis, with a £50 Amazon gift voucher and a letter of thanks from Ferry Porsche himself?

Now that would be better! []


Oli.

AHAHA - now I am thinking that I didnt get such a good deal after all []

 

[AntB]

ORIGINAL: A9XXC

I need to keep mine - but there are loads in breakers and thats where I'd go
Mike

No worried Mike, thanks for the info anyway.. sorted by Exeter OPC.

One question I do have which I completely forgot to ask, and you may know as you have taken one off.. Between the spring and the button, do you have a rubber washer type thing or not?

Cheers A