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Questions tagged [parking-brake]

A manual cable operated brake used to lock a vehicle into place at a given location when it is parked.

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Leaving car with automatic transmission in Neutral instead of Park

Can we use Neutral (N on the selector) instead of Park (P) when parking on a flat surface? Is this useful for transmission system? Because every time we put gear on P we must pass through R and will this reduce gearbox/clutch's life? What is the…
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How Do Parking Brakes Wear Out?

I get how regular brake pads wear out as they are repeatedly clamped against rotors turning at high RPM to slow down and/or stop 2000lbs or more of vehicle moving at speed. Friction like that takes its toll. But parking brakes get set while vehicle…
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Does my electronic parking brake remain engaged if I disconnect the battery?

I have a manual Audi A4 with an electronic parking brake. For safety reasons, I'm planning on leaving the battery disconnected for about a month while I do a variety of cosmetic work on the vehicle (swapping headlights, replacing front bumper cover,…
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Parking --- in gear or neutral?

This question is discussed all over the internet, but it seems to be just a voting procedure. I'd like to get a high-quality answer, and, since I couldn't find it on SE, I'll ask it again here. With the manual transmission, when parking on a…
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How to keep a car with manual transmission from rolling downhill when parking on a sloped surface?

(updated the change the term "sliding" to the, in this case, more correct "rolling") About parking a car with a manual transmission on a sloped surface: Is it normal that the car starts rolling downhill if only the parking brake is applied and the…
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Slack in Parking Brake Line

I have too much slack in my parking brake. I was changing my rear drum brakes, when I was having some difficulty reattaching my parking brake line to the parking brake lever. Somehow I ended up pushing on the line, and I ended up being able to pull…
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How do parking brakes acting on disc brakes work?

My car has disc brakes in the rear, and the calipers have a small lever, which is pulled by the parking brake cable. (The parking brake uses the discs, so there is no additional drum or similar.) When resetting the pistons, they also have to be…
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VW Passat Estate B5 - Parking brake suddenly slack but cable not broken

The handbrake on my VW Passat Estate B5 has suddenly become slack. With the handbrake on, the faulty side wheel is free to turn by hand. Foot brake works as normal Lifting the center console, I can see from the equalizer that one-side is…
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How do the rear brakes on a 1995 Chevy 1500 self-adjust?

I was told that by setting the parking brake each time the truck is parked, the shoe-brakes would self adjust. Is this true? There are no access holes on the back plate for manual adjustment.
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Emergency brake light always on

I got a 94 honda accord. Recently ebrake light on the dash shows up even the ebrake handle is down. I tried to look at the switch on the ebrake and mess with it a little bit. Then the ebrake light comes off on the dash, but when I start pumping the…
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Hand Brake Loose

I have a 2008 Honda Accord, today I not that the parking hand brake has no resistance. Its really easy just to lift it up and turn on the parking brakes. Then I check the parking brakes and see that the brakes are stuck to the rotor. So adjusting…
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The ebrake light in my car stays on when the ebrake is disengaged, should I be concerned?

I have a 2002 Ford Taurus Station Wagon, and the ebrake light stays on when the ebrake is disengaged, should I be concerned? I tried tramping down on the ebrake peddle really hard and then disengaging the ebrake, but when I pulled my hand back from…
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Car with broken left driveshaft won't stay in park

Today my rear left driveshaft gave up (lots of grinding noise while in Drive or Reverse, coming from the left side of the differential, and the car won't move). One strange thing I noticed is that the car will not stay still when it's in Park. I…
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Parking brake inspection question

NY State inspection guidelines call for a parking brake test similar to this: "Car must hold in Drive under moderate acceleration. Parking brake must lock in place and be released independently from service brake" An auto release parking brake is…
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2005 Scion tC - Handbrake indicator light intermittently turns on

The handbrake indicator light on my 2005 Scion tC intermittently turns on while I'm driving. I've read about two causes: low brake fluid and (not likely) the handbrake is somehow getting lifted while driving. Reason I say the second cause is…
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