[Spanker]

I appreciate that this is a very old post but thought to put the following here as this thread comes up when you are searching for "handbrake trim" for a D2.
It may help anyone else who has broken trim on their handbrake and was looking for an alternative solution to the double-sided tape method.
So I hope it helps someone in the future.

My wooden trim was broken when I got the car so I don't know what was on the end of the small broken nub:



My thought was to fasten this tiny nub back on to the small bolt-like thing that you can see going across the inside of the top of the handbrake (when the wooden trim is removed). My solution was to cable-tie it using a very thin Wilko 200mm long cable-tie.
But first I needed to fasten the cable-tie to the wooden trim so I used my Dremel and with a small drill bit, I VERY CAREFULLY dabbed and drilled either side of the nub to create a tunnel. I didn't want to drill into the wooden layer on top of this piece of black plastic so it was done a bit at a time. I could feel when I had pushed through the black plastic and was about to hit the wooden plastic attached to it so it wasn't all guesswork.



I then slid my cable-tie through the small tunnel (more of a slit) and if it was too stiff I drilled a bit more out until I could slide the cable-tie back and forth without too much resistance.


(Please note that since I took the photograph, I slid the cable-tie in from the other side as it would be easier to pull tight when on the handbrake).

The whole piece was then placed on the handbrake and the cable-tie pushed down into the hole, under the bolt-like thing and with a pair of tweezers, pulled back up and tied in place.



I did want to trim the end off the cable-tie, push it down the hole and from the underside, pull it tight. This would have meant that nearly all of the cable tie was neatly inside the main part of the handbrake. But after too much faffing I gave in, pulled the cable-tie tight from the top-side and carefully trimmed the visible end with a Stanley blade so that it hid itself under the "wood" quite nicely. (If I had used a longer cable-tie, or removed the "bolt" first and then re-inserted it through the cable-tie loop when the cable tie end was already down the hole, then that would have also worked a bit better).



The end result was very satisfying. It's tight and snug against the main part of the handbrake but has a small amount of lateral play for when the handbrake is raised and lowered.
It may not be as good as the original solution but once done, you'd be hard-pushed to see that a repair had taken place.



Anyway, if someone in the future has a similar issue to this and can't find a better solution on the forum or elsewhere, then I hope this gives them an alternative to try.

Dean