as Mr Patel said earlier, the equaliser plate suggests there is a problem with at least one of the calipers. At least the vid shows where the screws are!
Well as I'm in a rear brake disc+pads job I'm just baffled why VW was ubable to hide a simple removable tray in the middle armrest like it's in our Audi A3 from 2005. It takes 2 seconds to remove that tray and you have access to that brake adjuster...
This is not the correct way to adjust the handbrake. Both cables should be equal. The handbrake is self adjusting and should not require regular adjustment. The nut only needs to be adjusted when new cables or new calipers are being put in.
MrSpiderman1321 Brake cable stretch is minimal over the life of a cable (maybe 10 years). If set correctly, you should not need to adjust the handbrake regularly, or at every pad change. If you are fitting new cables or calipers, or if you wish to check the handbrake function, first pump the brake pedal a few times then pull and release the handbrake lever inside the car a few times, to make sure the pistons on the calipers have fully seated the pads against the discs... Then the main thing is to set the cables up properly to begin with, and that means that the levers on the back of the calipers (left and right) should be just slightly off their stops when the handbrake lever inside the car is down (or be a MAXIMUM of 1mm off the stop ie 0-1mm from the stop). You could use a 0.5mm feeler gauge to set this measurement, or just set it so that there is a slight gap, but no bigger than 1mm MAXIMUM. Then, as the pads wear, THE HANDBRAKE MECHANISM INSIDE THE CALIPER AUTOMATICALLY ADJUSTS ITSELF to compensate for pad wear, so that the lever inside the car WILL NOT get higher and higher as the pads wear out...and you will not have to keep adjusting the handbrake cable again and again...When the lever inside the car is pulled up, the bar that connects the bolt to the 2 cables should be equal (not twisted/bent), to show that both cables are being pulled equally.... if it is twisted/bent, then something is not right with either the calipers or the cables...
@@amana1480 So if one cable is 10mm longer for any reason, what do you do? Punks fail cars in MOT for that. There is no adjusment for each cable separately, idiotic VW design.
