well, as expected, this job is going to be a complete pain in the balls.

Needless to say, the Haynes book of lies is utter gibberish again. I just thought i'd go out and have a look between rain showers to see what i'm up against. Took the handbrake cable off one side, and it all looked pretty easy to do, so i thought i'll nip to halfords to get the pads/12mm allen socket.

Tried to put the cable back in, would it go back in? Would it fook.... I removed the C clip from the outer sheath, but i could not see how the cable comes away from the bracket. (haynes says it should just lift out) I took out one of the small allen boltsholding the bracket onto the caliper, tried to undo the other one, but it went really tight after a couple of turns, and didnt want to snap it! So after a lot of grunting and groaning, i admitted defeat, put it alll back together without a handbrake, and i'm of to get it booked in down the local garage