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There are sections there for each model incl the C30

Not just your Volvo. I was reading on another discussion that other cars suffer with this. My 06 Fiesta suffers from an iced-up handbrake after a freezing night and the problem is the equaliser thingy where the single cable from the back of the handbrake lever pulls the two separate cables to each wheel. Now - I can't actually see this, looking under the car, because there's shiny panelling to protect things from the heat of the exhaust pipe, but I can see where the two cables disappear behind this panelling. The iceing problem is a most obvious common design fault. What I do after parking the car is to get on my back with a squirty can of Duck-Oil (now made by Swarfega according to the can label, used to be DEB) and squirt it up where the cables disappear..... and it works! It does! Stops it freezing. I used to use it on Mini door locks when I was a little lad, because they used to freeze up in Winter, but a squirt of Duck-Oil into each lock when parking-up for the night kept them free. Ford door and boot locks get sticky, too, and a squirt of Duck-Oil sorts them out as well. Brilliant stuff. (I have no connection with Duck-Oil, by the way, but I do ramp it up!).

Edited by MrEckerslikefromRamsbottom on 07/02/2012 at 21:33