Bit of a result

[Ronin]

Phone up my local Nissan dealer today to get a price for the two rear handbrake cables and was quoted £56+vat each, but the guy at the parts desk said I have a pair on the shelf that have been there for the last five years that you can have for £50 the pair. Needless to say my wallet is now £50 lighter now all I have to do if fit them and maybe the car will stop rolling down hills

[bigtim]

Nice one tis a good result as i paid around 30 each side from a motofactors for some.

[Dazmans12]

£25 each is not bad, shame you wern't watching Ebay latley. I've just sold one of two spare ones I had. It went for £17, inc my postage. it was brand new Gen Nissan & still in its packaging. But it was only the passenger side one. Watch this space though as the guy who won the other one is from Holland and is already making excuses. I ve got a feeling he's going to cop out of the deal, though I could be wrong.
Blueprint also do them, which I only discovered recently. much cheeper but not as good quaility. With the Gen nissan ones the cable is coated with a plastic that gives it some protection. The Blueprint one is bare cable & not even lubracated to stop it rusting.

Daz

[Ronin]

Just got to fit them now and I know it's going to be a bugger of a job.

[datdrift]

i snapped my drivers side one a week or so ago and it was in the wet but i had a spare one in stock and its fairly easy to change, just try to get the car up fairly high. but if your handbrake isent working well then it may not be the cable, as on my last s12 the handbrake was so shit it failed the mot, i changed the cables and it was still no better, but luckly the mot man let it thru anyway

[Dazmans12]

I am on my second set of rear Handbrake cables now, seam to get 10 years life out of them there abouts. Eaisy enough to change, an hr or two depending on how bad the bolts are seized. I would put some spray grease down the cable guide & cable tie the rubber dust covers, esp if you have the cheeper ones.
Worth checking the rear Callipers as well, need a bit more maintenance than some, like has been meationed. Cause the handbrake Lever is incorperated with the piston, it seams to make them prone to sticking. Eaisy enough to strip down & check. what is common is the rubber dust cover perishes thus alowing water to get to the calliper piston. The rust thus stops the piston from returning back into the calliper. It only needs the smallest bit of rust to stick the piston. May sound like the obvious, but I also change my brake oil every year regardless. Esp if not used a lot, Over time moisture builds up inside the brake pipes & calliper thus attacking it from the inside aswell. You can spot how bad it is when you bleed the brakes & get black gunky stuff coming out.
Daz

[Ronin]

I've just replaced my rear pads and cured the sticking piston on one caliper, but the cables definatly ned replaceing as they were on their maximum adjustment for the last MOT and the tester only just past it. So I reckon they need changing, just have to wait and see how it goes.