Hand brake seized on.

[Wycombe83]

My Golf mk3 has been standing on my parent's driveway for about 4 months now, the driveway is on a slight slope.
I released the handbrake & nothing, it's seized up .... what do I do?
The battery is flat so I can't try to drive off.

[Ricky_M]

Hit the brake drum with a hammer, usually works on the trailer in work.

[joewilliams]

Rear drums?

Chock the front wheels, handbrake off, smack the drums with a hammer.

[TRUENOSAM]

Charge the battery and start the car. Take up the drive and that usually frees them off

[Wycombe83]

Battery is completely dead, as in I put on trickle charge the other day & nothing happened.
It's on ebay at the mo, just hoping there was a way of releasing them without having to take the DISCS apart.

[andrew]

leave the handbrake off and use a ctek battery conditioner
hth

[TRUENOSAM]

Wycombe83 said:

Battery is completely dead, as in I put on trickle charge the other day & nothing happened.
It's on ebay at the mo, just hoping there was a way of releasing them without having to take the DISCS apart.

Ok well just have somebody rock the car back and forth with the handbrake off ( the momentum should relase it) whilst you sit in the car and get ready to stop it rolling away

[cmackay81]

Just drift everywhere for a few months

[busta]

Jump start it and drive it gently until it releases. It won't stay on for long once the car is moving.

[snoopstah]

Wycombe83 said:

It's on ebay at the mo

So presumably you intend to get it running before the auction ends (or at least before the buyer turns up).

So when you've done that, you can just free them by driving it back and forward a bit.

(Or man up and get rockin' )

[Daaave]

I wouldn't bother pushing it by hand. When I tried to tow my girlfriends Polo after 2 months of standing I ended up dragging the rear wheels halfway up the road before they broke loose.

[OllieWinchester]

cmackay81 said:

Just drift everywhere for a few months

Just jack up the back wheels and put some Mcdonalds trays under the back wheels...

[joebongo]

I've had the same with a Corsa B and a PT Cruiser, both left standing.

Solution was to sit in the driver's seat and rock the car back and forth from the driver's seat (may have had the door open and right foot on the floor, can't remember).

Anyway, about a minute's worth of front-back rocking and a "clunk" later the brake released itself both times. I then drove slowly for a short distance, each time using the brakes and handbrake more and within about 10 mins all was back to normal. The Corsa went through it's MOT no worries a week later.