during the recent cold weather, i haven't used my astra for about 5-6 days and have found today that the brakes (left the handbrake off) are stuck on, any ideas on how to release please

andrew Winter, December 2010

if shoes are stuck to drums , the easiest way i've found is to chock wheels let handbrake off remove rear wheel trims and give wheel a good few hits with hammer between wheel fixing bolts on raised part of wheel, [better if you can get someone to sit in vehicle whilst carrying this out to prevent it rolling away!]if it is linkage siezed then this method wont free them off!

k, December 2010