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24th May 2014, 03:27 PM
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My passenger side rear went recently, and like you I also had the horrible dings and dongs going on in the car with error messages flashing away.
Turns out the caliper had stuck and wouldn't unwind. I managed to get a guy come over to the house with a VCDS and he was able to get the caliper to wind back using the VCDS. The car then ended up at German specialists, who ended up replacing the caliper and a control unit of some sort (resides in the boot apparantly), at a cost of no less than 1130 smackers!!! wasn't best pleased to be honest as apart from the cost, they didn't seem to know what was wrong straight away. I wish I had had a go at it myself now. Does anyone know if these can be overhauled/repaired? I know that the dealers take the old ones back and refund you the surcharge if you return them, so obviously they must be doing something with them.
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28th May 2014, 04:12 PM
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What an expensive ball ache! Two motors supplied by Audi - both existing ones were in very bad shape. One new one fitted and went on fine, the off side however was a mess. After much wrestling, it wrote off the calliper so I had to source a completely new assembly for the drivers side. Thank God for Euro Car Parts.
These park brakes are a menace when they go wrong. All is well now, some £800 later. They still make a ridiculous noise....
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28th May 2014, 04:20 PM
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From what I recall euro car parts didn't have any Stock recently..how much were they and what did you pay for labour?
The motors from Audi, guessing they were a few hundred each? Glad to hear you've fixed the issue though!
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29th May 2014, 07:33 AM
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What sort of noise does it make?
Mine was replaced just before I bought the car and they are noisy when compared to the two passats in work.
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2nd June 2014, 09:18 AM
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Can someone explain the rationale behind EPBs. What drove an engineer to say, "you know, there is a problem with the old fashioned parking brake system and I can design something which makes it better".
What was the problem? how has the EPB made it better? I am genuinely curious. 
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2nd June 2014, 09:28 AM
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Form over function I suspect.
The designer was there drawing a car and thought the parking brake was ugly and never flowed well for his current dash designs, so removed it and forced the engineers to go EPB. I thought the foot parking brakes from the BMW 7 and VW touaregs was fine. Even the old patrol pull brakes at a push.
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