My niece was told that her car needed new rear drums, shoes & wheel cylinders to fix a poor handbrake. I took a look while she was home on holiday & all it needed was a new pair of handbrake cables. The old ones were very stretched, a previous 'mechanic' had added a spacer at the adjuster. I added another spacer to give her some handbrake until she got to a proper garage. I would have fixed it properly myself but didn't have enough time before she was going back.