Parking Brake Failure / Nut Fallen Off

[RXStu]

Hi there,

I am the owner of a 21k mile 2004 RX300. The parking brake has lost much of it's 'feel' recently and is very easy to apply (I can easily do this by hand when I am looking down there). I didn't think much off it until last weekend when, whilst in traffic, I put the car into neutral and applied the parkign brake. The car rolled forward as though there was no brake at all. I realise now that the reason for the ease of use is that the parking brake is not being applied!

I didn't worry about this until yesterday when I was driving and a little nut fell out from the footwell and bounced off my foot!

I wondered if anyone else had experienced this, or whether anyone else knew how to investgate and fix the parking brake problem. I don't think that the underlying reason is the brake itself as this was tight and the car is low mileage.

Can you help?

egards, Stuart

[RXStu]

All - just to point out that it was the nut off the parking brake cable that had worked loose and fallen off. I crewed it back on and everyhting works fine. It could do with one of those plastic collars really to prevent it falling off again.