hi it's ither weak springs or a piece of brake shoe has stuck to the drum.If you are leaving it parked up for any lenth of time chock the wheels leave in gear and leave the hand brake off
Hi. Have you got drums or discs on the rear?
If drums I would suspect a biuld up of dust/rust fragments, if discs possibly sticking hand brake mechanism or pads sticking in the slides. Either way a strip down and clean up is probably the order of the day.
Athough you can't rule it out, sticking/frayed cables is probably unlikely on a 3 year old vehicle.
By the way are you out of warranty? Just a thought.
if you have disc brakes then could as geoff says only trouble is most times to service them you need a special tool to rewind the piston in to the caliper, rear calipers still have a nasty tendency to collect all the road dirt and crud which really helps to seize the things up . There is another system that has small shoes inside the rear discs,dont know if that system is still around though as it is quite a few years since i was a mechanic :d but you will have to remove the caliper and the brake disk to access these, may help if you let us know the base model on your van,as different vehicles use different systems. Cannot beat the old drum brakes at the rear far les complicated and still quite efficient
if you have disc brakes then could as geoff says only trouble is most times to service them you need a special tool to rewind the piston in to the caliper, rear calipers still have a nasty tendency to collect all the road dirt and crud which really helps to seize the things up . there is another system that has small shoes inside the rear discs,dont know if that system is still around though as it is quite a few years since i was a mechanic but you will have to remove the caliper and the brake disk to access these, may help if you let us know the base model on your van,as different vehicles use different systems. cannot beat the old drum brakes at the rear far les complicated and still quite efficient
if you have disc brakes then could as geoff says only trouble is most times to service them you need a special tool to rewind the piston in to the caliper, rear calipers still have a nasty tendency to collect all the road dirt and crud which really helps to seize the things up . there is another system that has small shoes inside the rear discs,dont know if that system is still around though as it is quite a few years since i was a mechanic but you will have to remove the caliper and the brake disk to access these, may help if you let us know the base model on your van,as different vehicles use different systems. cannot beat the old drum brakes at the rear far les complicated and still quite efficient