cla 1000

I had about enough of the stupid, idiotic parking brake issue.
A while ago one of the parking brake cabels came out of its mountig thingy.
I did not have time for it so I left it like that.
My lovely whife drove the car last week and she called me that the parking brake alarm would not go off. Aparantly the brake got stocked pressed down. I tryed to lift the pedal but it was geting pulled back down. Not a lot, but just as much to trigger the parking brake alarm.
This week I took the right back wheel off the car, I took the disk off and somehow I mannaged to plug the cabel back to where it belongs. I put everything back and it worked just fine.
Until today when I aplied the brake again and it snaped out again.
I hate the stupid thing. It took me about 4 hours to fix it. Now what?
If you guys have any sugestions on how to adjust, tighten the cabels I would realy apreciate it.
Help

BleedzMerc

is your post button stuck on your computer?

cla 1000

computer is acting stupid as well.

cla 1000

Outland and Buel! I need help and I know you Guy know hou to adjust.

cla 1000

What?
No one knows how to adjust the parking brake? Come on...
Is there still no repair manuals available for the C class?

C230SportsCoupe

search, it's been posted before.

pookie

I stopped using the parking brake. Bet anything it is messed up from lack of use.

pookie

give them some time to come online. it only has been a day since you posted the thread.

cla 1000

Hey! I do not post a lot on the forum but I read this stuff every day. I used the STFF but I did not find anything on it that could actualy help me. No one works on my car but me and I do not trust the MB steeler at all.
So in conclusion I will not ask a question on the forum untill I searched it. I usually get all the info I need here so I will wait until someone that knows my answer will be willing to help.
Thank you.

cla 1000

Yes I will give them time. I know that the 2 guys I mentioned earlyer have the knowlidge on this matter. Advans experienced the same problem as I did and he got it fixed.
Buell knows his cars and he helped members a lot all the time in the past, so I know that if he sees this he will let me know.

C230SportsCoupe

Its posted several times on MBKlasse.

Under the rear seat, there's an access hatch in the middle of the car, remove it and you'll see the adjustment nut.

Is your pedal slightly loose, or goes to the floor with no pressure? If the later, adjusting won't work. The cable has come off one of the rear brakes, its a common problem with the design of the parking brake on the W203. Jack up the car and get under it, should be easy enough to spot.

cla 1000

Now that is something my idiotic mind did not think to check. The hatch under the rear seat. Thank you.
The cable on the pasenger side wheel is disconected from the middle bracket. I reatatched it monday working like an idiot and taking off the whole brake (disk) on the right rear wheel. I released the cable from the wheel and reatatched at the middle holder thingy. Then I put everything back. It did not last to long. Friday it came off again. That is when I posted here for help.
Now that I know about the hatch under the seat I feel more releassed. I think that I know what I have to do.

cla 1000

Ok. I got it fixed today and it works as good as new. It was les than 15 minutes of work.
Because of the cables beeing so lose, whenever I was pulling the parking brake pedall up, the right side cable was moveing medially and then when the brake was being reapplied it would come out of that socket.
I adjusted the screw and it worked fine after that.
Now whenever I release the parking brake the pedall pops up and the light in the dash board goes away without the need of lifting the pedall. It is nice and tight.
C230sportcoupe thank you for the assistance.

coolshades

cla1000, did you have to take the wheel and the disc out the second time? I am having a similar problem, with the pedal going to the floor, no pressure. I am not mechanically savvy but like you, I do not want to take it to the stealers either. Would you mind laying out the steps you took to fix your parking brake problem? TIA

Cool

C230 Sport Coup

I haven't had a problem as described here, but my parking brake doesn't seem to work very well.
I park on a hill, and after putting in park, pushing the ebrake to the floor, and
releasing the regular brake, the car lurches forward. I've taken to pushing the ebrake very hard, and it goes to the floor pretty much.
Perhaps I could benefit from adjusting from under the seat, and avoid
problems with the cables coming undone?
Hmmmm.....
I'll take a look at that. See if I can find this access point under the seat.
Anyone have a pic?

Buellwinkle

Good to know. I've never had to adjust it on my C230 and the SLK adjustment is different. Actually have all the parts to change out the parking brake on the SLK, haven't had free time to do it.

coolshades

I have a 2002 C230Kompressor and I don't have any eBrake (I don't think). Anyways, I notice a couple of days ago that the parking brake would go all the way to the floor, with no pressure. Yesterday, I found a small metal thingy (size of a small ball bearing) underneath the C230K, looks like it's broken off (I'll take some photos and figure out how to post them here). I'm just trying to see if it's a big job to fix the parking brake problem. I'm quite handy but don't have much idea as to how these cars work. I'd really appreciate some detail steps to diagnose and repair the problem. Thanks in advance for advice.

Cool

C230 Sport Coup

Oh Sheee-it, sounds like the cable snapped.
Never fun fishing cables through a car.
Did a throttle cable on my old X19 one time, had to pull the seats....
get it through the center tunnel.
PIA. That was mid engine though, but this would likely be a similar job.

Buell, why would anyone every need to change the parking brake?
As long as it's not driven with it on, it should never wear out, no?

coolshades

Does the job requires disassembling wheels and brakes, or simply jack the car up and work underneath it? I do not have a clue. If one end of the cable is still attached (to somewhere), is it possible to attach a new cable to the old one and pull it through to the end that is snapped?

Cool

C230 Sport Coup

Yer gonna have to climb under and look.

cla 1000

There is no need to take the wheels off the car. The adjustment can be done very easilly from inside the car. U have to lift the rear seats and in the middle there is a square cover. Unscrue the 3 screws and U will see the brake cables. It is easy.
If one of the cables is out of the holder release the "y" holder screw and reattach the cable back into the place it came out.

SeanSBA

can you tighten the cables through the rear seat hole too?

cla 1000

Yes. That is why u do this. Or to reatach one of the cables.

coolshades

Thanks for the responses. I'll try to work on it this weekend.

Cool

cla 1000

No problem. It's easy work. You'll be ok.