DC5R handbrake useless

[Swoopdown]

My handbrake is shit......

I did a motorkhana style event on Saturday and was let down badly by the lack of ability to lock rear wheels.
I have always been able to lock wheels and handbrake slide other cars but I can't get a lock out of my Honda.

Can other DC5 owners tell me if they can lock rears at will?

I want to know if its adjustment or the car and ultimately if it can be fixed.

[Karl]

a working handbrake will lock the rear tires.
Over time it will need to be readjusted!
Read the workshop manual on how to, or take to a mechanic!

[PG_DC5]

mine is so bad, that my car has rolled down 2 hills twice now, with me chasing it like a retard

[Flippit]

I adjusted my handbrake on my DC5R as much as possible, and with the 8", 224 re002's on back i could still not get it to lock up even yanking it! I'd have to be doing over 40 to get it to lock up(ish)

[M@lew]

I did the EXE DECA day a couple of years ago, decided the handbrake on my DC5 is more or less useless for locking up and spinning around.

[bennjamin]

mine is so bad, that my car has rolled down 2 hills twice now, with me chasing it like a retard

Always park with your car in the opposite gear of its forward angle , so if the handbrake doesnt work or fails the car will rock but wont roll

[Taoystar]

Sometime on steep hills with new rear pads it rolls on me to thats why I have it in gear or park the car side ways from the hill

[PG_DC5]

Always park with your car in the opposite gear of its forward angle , so if the handbrake doesnt work or fails the car will rock but wont roll

yeh i always do, it was just twice on very light hills, I was stepping out of the car for just a second with the engine on, never again!, now im getting OCD about it, and sometimes go double check haha

[Swoopdown]

Hi M@lew. That's the one I did on Saturday. Was extremely well run and everyone had a ball.
My little silver Teg did me proud on the tarmac runs. On the 4 runs we got I placed 4th, 3rd, 3rd and 2nd against a good mixed field of cars. But on the skid pan, without a handbrake I may as well not have rocked up.

OK so its established that Honda can make a motor but not a braking system....

Does anyone have a solution to this? Otherwise its goodbye to Honda and hello to a car with a working handbrake.

[Nathannnnn]

Mine's the same. It doesn't do shit. Is this with all dc5's? lol

[Flippit]

DC2's have great handbrakes, slide the rear end around is almost effortless!

[tinkerbell]

lies!

[Nathannnnn]

DC2's have great handbrakes, slide the rear end around is almost effortless!

So true. My mate think's he's drift king and rips a skid around every second corner. LOL

[tinkerbell]

So true. My mate think's he's drift king and rips a skid around every second corner. LOL

wot a dikhed m8!