Hi all. I am in need of help. Car failed mot with no handbrake to one side. My mechanic fitted pads and discs but now the cables are not moving. One side was full on before he started job. He pulled the emergency lever which released cable. The fault code states that the emergency lever is deployed.With the cover off the motor is working back and forward but not pulling main cable. I don't know what exactly happens when emergency cable is pulled but looking inside motor casing the emergency cable is going fully off. I think the fault lies with this. Customer not very patient. We have solus with 10.4 but if we fitted another motor it would still need programmed which solus will not do adding to our frustration.any help appreciated. Cheers Les

I may be wrong but dont think solus can config one of these,Ive done a load of these with clip you have to enter vin, engine code,gearbox code, vehicle type, theres a few other calibrations that need done with car parked on level surface.

Thanks for the reply Roy.Customer will have to wait as it is -21 here and frozen pipes in my house, so at the moment that takes priority.
Kind regards
Les

Well, I stripped motor housing and now understand how the emergency release works but this is not the problem. If you can imagine that the cable is a bolt and the motor is the nut, when operated the nut turns pulling the bolt (cable). Instead of the nut being held in one position, it move down the bolt.If I jam the 'nut' the handbrake works. I think I will need to bite the bullet and get a new motor.Hope the above makes sense
Cheers Les

Hi Les, as far as I know they are a "one" use unit, so yes you will have to fit a new unit and have it programed.

Do not throw the old one away before you have programed the new one as the configuration can be read from the old one. HTH

Regards Mark