Great you got both cables replaced.
If the garage stripped everything , cleaned, checked, freed off autoadjusters, reassembled , sourced new cables... then £200 is not a bad price.
What year is your car?
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If the garage stripped everything , cleaned, checked, freed off autoadjusters, reassembled , sourced new cables... then £200 is not a bad price.
What year is your car?
2013. It's in Leroypanda's signature.
While its bad news that it cost you that, its good for me as I predicted it had broken on the tight bend round the suspension where moisture sits in the cable
Glad you got it fixed though, and should be good for another few years now.
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While its bad news that it cost you that, its good for me as I predicted it had broken on the tight bend round the suspension where moisture sits in the cable
Glad you got it fixed though, and should be good for another few years now.
Ideally i want to keep on top of it now, what do you suggest to keep the moisture out? would i have to strip it down again?
if this is the first time since 2013, not really too much need? Do I recall this might be a used car that replaced another? I've only had one fail - and that was on a 2005 car in about 2012 and at heading for 100,000 miles. (The problem is not unique to the Panda, or indeed Fiats)
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brought it at just over 2 yrs old so no idea if it had one before, im guessing its an ex pcp/lease car as it came from a stack em high sell em cheap supermarket
Even then, if you bought in 2015, that was 5 or 6 years ago... not worth the 'cost of time' to take apart, but worth a visual external check at annual service. The cables are listed by Shop4Parts at about £50 each side, so £200 for both, plus the labour to dismantle, fit, adjust etc is a good fair price. https://www.shop4parts.co.uk/?name=..._(2012_to_)_0.9_TwinAir_Turbo_Handbrake_Cable
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