Your car has rear disc brakes or drum brakes to hold the parking brake shoes and the car is equipped with an auto adjust mechanism that automatically adjusts the parking brake lever for you. You do have to make adjustments your Plymouth Neon parking brake shoes when you get new pads or when your parking brake lever has more clicks pulling up.
Instructions
- 1
Release the parking brake to the lowest position. Raise your Plymouth Neon rear wheels with a jack and support each back wheel with a jack stand.
2Get underneath the vehicle on the inside of the rear wheel wells. Locate the rubber plug in the adjusting hole and take it out.
3Insert a screwdriver into the adjusting hole to adjust the star wheel adjustment. On the driver's side, use the screwdriver to adjust the star adjuster downward until you feel tension in the wheel. On the passenger side, use the screwdriver to adjust the adjuster star upward until you feel tension in the wheel.
4Move the star wheel adjustment upwards on the driver's side to where the rear wheel spins freely. On the passenger side move the star wheel adjustment downwards until the rear wheel spins freely. Rotate the star wheel adjuster two more clicks on both rear wheel adjustments.
5Place the rubber plugs back into the adjusting hole on both rear wheel wells.
6Press in on the parking brake two times with releasing. Make sure that the rear wheels spin freely still.
7Lower your Plymouth Neon using the jack and remove the jack stand supports.
