VW Citi Golf Handbrake Failure due to Wear [Photos]
Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2014 1:34 pm
My wife drives a VW Citi Golf 2005 1.4. The handbrake has tremendous play on it's pivot point. I would like to know if any other person on the forum has this same experience, or have something fallen out?
If you release the handbrake, you can move it left and right with a lot of play (lets say about 10cm in both directions measured at the button). The problem is, these golfs don't have a lot of leverage on their handbrake pull up. You have to do most of the "pulling" with your muscle.
So the handbrake have a type of "guide" that keep it centered in the front near the switch. This guide has been grinding off since there is so much play and we normally use a lot of "pull" to engage it fully. (It also does not help that our house is against a hill and we always have to pull it to it's max).
Currently it has grind away so much of the guide that the handbrake moves far enough to the side so that the "half gear" with the teeth that keep it up, slips inbetween the guides.
So I'm curious if the handbrake should/does have a lot of play, or if I may be missing some kind of bushing or washer that should fill the gap on the pivot point. To be clear on one side there is a type of "clip" plate that keeps the stud (not sure what it is called) from slipping out to the side. On the other end, there is nothing similar, but about a 2-3mm gap between the stud and hole side it sits in.
I cannot see metal shavings that indicate that the pivot point has also weared off.
Is this play normal or could there have been another "clip" plate that kept it fixed in the center? I can take a photo of video to if I'm back home tonight if that will help you understand better.
If you release the handbrake, you can move it left and right with a lot of play (lets say about 10cm in both directions measured at the button). The problem is, these golfs don't have a lot of leverage on their handbrake pull up. You have to do most of the "pulling" with your muscle.
So the handbrake have a type of "guide" that keep it centered in the front near the switch. This guide has been grinding off since there is so much play and we normally use a lot of "pull" to engage it fully. (It also does not help that our house is against a hill and we always have to pull it to it's max).
Currently it has grind away so much of the guide that the handbrake moves far enough to the side so that the "half gear" with the teeth that keep it up, slips inbetween the guides.
So I'm curious if the handbrake should/does have a lot of play, or if I may be missing some kind of bushing or washer that should fill the gap on the pivot point. To be clear on one side there is a type of "clip" plate that keeps the stud (not sure what it is called) from slipping out to the side. On the other end, there is nothing similar, but about a 2-3mm gap between the stud and hole side it sits in.
I cannot see metal shavings that indicate that the pivot point has also weared off.
Is this play normal or could there have been another "clip" plate that kept it fixed in the center? I can take a photo of video to if I'm back home tonight if that will help you understand better.