Handbrake sticking on and MOT tomorrow!

Cheers, I've just had a look with it (oh and fixed my light clusters 100% and found my throttle clip lol) and sadly it's not the cable, but the caliper.

I suspect nearside is the main offender, it gets pretty stuck when the handbrake has been applied. Pulling the cable out with mole grips doesn't release the caliper so it must be the caliper itself. Applying the foot-brake doesn't seem to make it stick so I think it's that lever thing. I'll need a new caliper I think but I intend to look inside this thing and see if it's dirty or something.

Using needle nosed mole grips to persuade this to the "resting position" makes the disc/hub free to spin, so it must be this causing my woes.

Thanks Terry, it sure looks that way on second thoughts.

The MOT man was patient enough and they did their best for me but she miserably failed in the end.

Emissions test was interesting, I'll not go there, let's just say the lights went green in the nick of time.

They failed it on the binding brake and on my scrubbed inners of front tyres and on both wishbones and one wishbone balljoint.

So I need:

* 2 front tyres
* 2 wishbones
* 2 hand brake cables

I've been to my usual motor shop and paid £70 for the wishbones and cables and will just have to buy some cheap tyres to get me through. I can always change to nicer ones later.

I am not having a good day but I'm one step closer to the car being ready and good.

On the plus side the car sounded amazing being revved in the garage and after the big pause at ~3500rpm goes like stink! Maybe I'll finally get the handling I want when the wishbones are done.

Should be fun, will be easy compared to head gaskets :}