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Old Jul 26, 2017 | 11:02 PM
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Emergency Brake Rattle

Hey guys and gals...okay so we all know...our emergency brake handle rattles. Its the button mainly from what I can tell. Okay...so someone told me to take off the plastic handle...and put I guess some adhesive felt on the inside of it??? Seems hard to get to that way...and what solutions do you guys have for that? I definitely dont want to go thru the hassle at the moment of getting a while new assembly or what not. Need ur advice...if you have used the felt strip with adhesive tell me EXACTLY how you put it on please That would help
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Old Aug 1, 2017 | 01:30 PM
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Re: Emergency Brake Rattle

i have this same issue, my idea is to just remove the single phillips screw and put felt around the button.
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Old Aug 3, 2017 | 06:46 PM
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Re: Emergency Brake Rattle

Me to, i stuck a tooth pick in mine
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Old Aug 17, 2017 | 04:22 PM
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Re: Emergency Brake Rattle






Hey guys emergency or parking brake rattle fixed!!! All right...so two things u need to know. First of what worked for me may not work for u. Second if u try the way I did I used the fuzzy side or felt side of some Velcro. Not just any Velcro either. I found some industrial strength (very sticky) high temp LOW profile kind! It's actually not super easy to find, go on EBAY and buy it there for like 7 bucks for a 5ft role or how ever much it is.

​​​​​next part, the previous owner of the car had some how basically stripped or almost stripped out the screw holding on the plastic ebrak handle. So I went to Ace hardware, I could only find silver color and it's an M4 screw. So I had some screw cutter/pliers and thread it into an 8/32 hole and cut it very close to size of old one. A tinny bit shorter than the other one, so maybe buy a couple of screws. Anyways...i took off the hand brake cover and put the felt Velcro onto the outside of the brake button. Take the handle and give it a good shove...once it goes on u will realize the Velcro is a tad bit too thick. No worries, grab a straight razor and shave some off and try again, u don't need to shave much off. I drove down the road and man...I have to say it is nice not having the rattle! That thing is solid as a brick! Unfortunately once u stop one rattle u notice others SMH lol
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Old Aug 17, 2017 | 04:22 PM
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Re: Emergency Brake Rattle

And yes I'm going to spray paint the screw black eventually
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