Be very cautious of modern "standard issue" handbrake pads, they tend to be the wrong material, in that they are far too hard, and the wrong shape. Personally I’d recommend getting pads refaced, specifying a soft material, if you have anybody about who does that sort of thing. Hard pads means much wrestling with the handbrake, which results in stretched cables, which means that the pads rest on the disc in the off position, which then means that the pads wear oddly so that the bearing face when you do apply them is significantly reduced, which results in more wrestling and all in all you’re on a hiding to nothing.
I realised all this when, during an earlier discussion berating the V8 handbrakes, somebody mentioned that they lived an San Francisco, which is not exactly flat, their handbrake was simply marvellous and the pads had never ever been changed.
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