RE: EBrake Frozen???

[Chris Coracini <Coracin@usdl.com>]

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>
>Hi all,
>The other day, I went to go to drive my car home.  It was 15 deg (F) or 
>so and when i released the parking brake, it was frozen.  After a little 
>while of driving, it unfreezes itself.  I am afraid to use the parking 
>brake when its cold out because I dont want to burn my brakes up back 
>there.  Does anyone know how I would fix this? 

don't use e-brake when you know it will be below freezing.
water/condensation gets in the cables and freezes, there is nothing you
can do...  just leave it in 1st, it won't go anywhere...  i never lost
my car down a hill or anything from not putting the e-brake on.  

chris
86 16V scirocco

>Or how I would go about 
>replacing the cables (since I kinda need some new ones).
>
>TIA
>Pete
>87 16v
>
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