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2018 Galaxy Parking brake switch failure?

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Manual 2018 Galaxy: On holiday in France. Out of the blue parking brake stopped working, or at least could not be applied manually. Hill assist still appears to be fine. No response at all to the button, appears to be not doing anything so I pulled some trim off to investigate loose connection. After pulling out and replacing the plug I had a very audible alarm message "Park Brake failure. Service now" (or something like). Managed to connect Forscan and enter and exit parking brake maintenance mode. This has cleared the alarm message, but still can't use the parking brake switch. Could this be a simple switch failure? It would happen when in the Alps, with plan to go over St Bernards on Tuesday. Would rather have a handbrake to use! So I probably look for a garage to replace the switch on Monday - any other ideas?

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    Sorry - wrong forum. Reposted in Galaxy - but can't see how to delete this thread.

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    You can't delete the post but you could edit it, delete the message and replace it with one explaining what happened.

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