Hand brake cable touching rear spring

[Graeme]

Upon fitting my new wheels I can now see that the handbrake cable is touching the coil of the spring, I'm not sure how much of a problem it is but doesn't look good, the car has rear discs and still runs shock and spring set up, anybody else had this problem?

[mowgli]

don't you have to use a short cable off a cav mk3???

[Benn]

Mine always touched. Never did any damage. Passed the mot ok, but i thought it would fail.

You'd have to weld on a bit to the beam to hold it away from thhe spring.


Mog, Cav mk2. But they all do it.

[Will F]

When I first fitted mine, the back would lock up when I went over bumps! lol
Like Ben says, you need to wend a guide/tag onto the beam to re-direct the cable...

[Graeme]

Thanks folks that is what I suspected, as a temporary bodge I've fitted some rear springs with less coils so it passes through the spring

[Benn]

I never had any probs with it tho.

I have had to notch the chassis leg tho for the cable to run thru.. lol

[Jon_nova1]

I know corsa's have the guide, most vauxhalls probably have them too