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Symptom: Has your Emergency Brake become more and more tired
and eventually start to make noise and or become useless?
Well first you should try a
few things before you replace them.
1. You can adjust
the springs within the rear wheels
2. Adjust the tension
in the line on the middle of your car.
Anyways, if you've tried those, and they don't work, or hear
some weird scraping sounds, and have decided you want to replace
them: Here you go!
Your Rear Emergency Brake pads are in your rear wheels, under
the rotor.
The first-first step is to RELEASE your
parking brake!
1. Break (loosen) the lugs on your wheel, and then jack the
car up, put your jack stands up, and then take off your wheel.
Put your wheel just in front of your rotor, so you will have
a place to put your caliper when you take it off. (Or you can
use a small garden stool, or SOMETHING just so your caliper
isn't dangling.
2. Take off the calipers via the two big bolts on the inside
of the caliper. It will still be attached to your car (duh)
so set it on your nearby box.
2. Using a 19MM socket, take off your caliper. It's the TWO
huge bolts, on the inner side of your car. The pictured image
below is of a front caliper. The read doesn't have that black
plastic thing.
3. Put the caliper on some sort of stool/wheel, whatever. 
4. Nicely persuade the rotor to come off. You may need a rubber
mallet, or something stronger. Just get it off. Don't hurt it.
5. Thar she be! (in red) Notice
the little gear/star like object? With that one can adjust
the parking brake.
6. What I did.... ahem... was just to look and see how the
parking brakes went on, (study them, take pictures, build the
new kit outside the car, just so you get it) and then broke
the springs off by just twisting them with a strong pair of
needle noise pliers until the springs snapped off and the parking
brakes fell to the floor.
7. Then you can put then new ones on, this is pretty tricky,
but you can do it.
8. You will then want to adjust the parking brake and make
it as tight as possible. Put the caliper on, and turn the wheel
and see how smooth it goes.
You want it to be smooth and friction free. Then you can adjust
the tension via that gear, until you can feel it start to rub
a little bit. Then back off on the tension, and then go in and
stomp on your parking brake. Logically, you should figure this
stuff out and can troubleshoot it until it's right. You don't
want to drive around with your parking brake "sort of"
on all the time. That can't be good for mileage, etc.
Sorry few pictures. If you have some good ones, send
'em!
Just a side note: I accidentally bought 2 of these, because
I thought you needed 1 for each side, but 1 kit has 2, so if
you want to buy my other new kit, go to the classifieds and
buy it $20 shipped.
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