i was stuck a bit stranded the other day as my disco wouldn't start, it gave symptom's of a flat battery. anyway after a few tries it started but with a puff of smoke from around the handbrake, so out came the center console but couldn't see anything wrong, so back together it went only to find i couldn't let the handbrake off, on closer inspection the plastic coating on the inner cable had melted in to a big blob that wouldn't fit in the outer cable. so out came the hacksaw and the cable came off.
only reason i can come up with is earth between engine/gearbox to chassis broken and its used the cable instead
my question is how many earths should there be between engine/gearbox and chassis as i can only find one that is intact
