Hi,

The soft handbreak cover on my Monte Carlo Combi is in poor condition, the end has come unstuck.

However I can't see a way to remove it (there's no tab on the underside or anything), and I'm not sure where best to obtain a replacement.

Is this something someone else has done and has any tips on?

Thanks,

I believe it is glued to a thin sheet of soft plastic and then to the handbreak body. I recently bought a 2018 skoda fabia combi with the handbreak handle missing, and it looks like it was just glued. I was hoping to getting a cheap replacement idea from this thread.

Hi, welcome.

Just for your info, correct English spelling is handbrake, formerly was a typo or misspelling and I am guilty of both on far too many occassions so I'm not trying to 'live in a glass house and throw stones'.

16 hours ago, nta16 said:

Hi, welcome.

Just for your info, correct English spelling is handbrake, formerly was a typo or misspelling and I am guilty of both on far too many occassions so I'm not trying to 'live in a glass house and throw stones'.

Thank you kind sir, the level of English has increased in this thread.

2 hours ago, chillbro said:

Thank you kind sir, the level of English has increased in this thread.

😄 I was born and have lived my whole life in England yet I'm still not that great at the language and my posts are very often littered with spelling and grammatical errors. Most of my post edits are for typos, and I can take a few edits and still miss loads, and I'm getting worse.

49 minutes ago, nta16 said:

😄 I was born and have lived my whole life in England yet I'm still not that great at the language and my posts are very often littered with spelling and grammatical errors. Most of my post edits are for typos, and I can take a few edits and still miss loads, and I'm getting worse.

I never used "handbreak" before chatgpt, it might be affecting my cognitive abilities.
On another note: if anyone knows any replacement suited for the handbrake cover I would also appreciate it

I assume (always dangerous) what you mean as the handbrake cover is what in the olden days would have been refered as the "gaiter"(?) but then you might mean the sleeve or cover or grip, such as just one example at random. - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/358012382510

Sorry how to remove it I've not got a clue but I'll have a look, the Germans car makers have different ideas to the British car makers.

Edited 24 May24 May by nta16
typo

I/ve no idea if this is correct, nearest I could find. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmTtnMXLbz8

Thanks for the spelling corrections!

On semantics, I always thought gaiter was something more flexible, such as the covering over the gear stick - in this instance I guess 'grip' would be the best descriptor for what I'm after.

I saw that video, but unfortunately no sign of any such tab on mine

I've just had a quick look at the grip on my wife's 2015 SE (is it "leather"?) and using a mirror it just shows the seam(?) on the underside but no pushy plastic tag thingy.

This is a total guess (and it's far, far, far too hot now for my body and brain) that possibly the solid plaster gaiter part and grip moight (or might not come off together, poassibly with also the chrome push button cover. Possibly removing the slit(?) panel cover bit of plastic, of the plastic centre console, under the handbrake grip, may help with removal of these pieces (as well as with removal of the centre console) - but I don't know. Obviously when dealing with plastic, particularly aged plastic, you want to take care not to damage or break it as it probably costs an arm and a leg to replace a plastic cover like this.

1 hour ago, FrozenFabia said:

On semantics, I always thought gaiter was something more flexible, such as the covering over the gear stick

Yeap that's what I'd normally go with, gaiters as coverings. Way back wen the handbrake covering would have been leather moving on to vynil type plastic (rubber sometimes) and now perhaps "leather" but also the handbrake one at least ridged rather than flexible.

Rubber "boots" on suspension parts were also know as gaiters, and gaiters going over people's socks and boots If I remember correctly. Of course VW (and those in Scotland for the people boots, socks things) might have other words for these things. Manufacturers' parts decscriptions can sometimes be fun particularly if different languages are involved and of course as time passes langauages and qwords change as do their common use and meanings. Yes I could be as old as I sound. 😄