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[ValentinoRoddy]

Hi, changed the front and rear handbrake cable on my mk3 mini today but once if finished I noticed it was slightly rubbing on the inside of my tyre. All of the cable is in the correct slots it should be and it works well. The tyre is a Yokohama 165/70 10r so isn’t any wider than normal.

Is the handbrake cable usually this close and if not any ideas how to fix it?

[ValentinoRoddy]

Here an another picture showing how close it is
It isn’t to bad but does touch, you can hear it rubbing when spinning the wheel

[Retroman]

Try a couple of washers under the cable bracket at the quadrant end, it will mean wheel and drum off, bolt out

 

or a 3mm wheel spacer

 

It might just me rubbing, but imagine that at 50-70 MPH for a while

[ValentinoRoddy]

Thanks for the reply, I’ll give the washers behind the bracket a try tomorrow