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Originally Posted by marco_mc22
Install new hardware, engage handbrake a couple times, done.
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I wish that was the case with my car😔
A mechanic was troubleshooting fitment of a new brake rotor (turns out, EBC Brakes' compatibility list was wrong & the rotor does not actually fit my car), and in doing so, intentionally shrank the diameter of the drum brake pads to their smallest sitting (turns out the rotor was physically interfering with the dust shield but he didn't catch that, and thought the resistance felt might have been the result of the handbrake dragging).
So the mechanic threw the old (stock PP Brembo) rotor back on so I can drive the car until I get a new, properly sized rotor replacement.
Centric has a 4 month wait to ship out the new rotors to the shop I'm ordering from, so I've been driving the car around like this for the past >3 months and the hand brake still engages super high (though a bit tighter/lower than when I first drove it out from the mechanic's).
I didn't adjust the star adjuster myself later at home because it turns out the mechanic didn't align the hole in the rotor to access the star adjuster with the star adjuster itself (I only found out after removing the wheel myself), and I don't want to deal with removing the entire rotor myself to realign them.