using the e-brake

[Dino]

I use it the parking brake all the time. I NEVER trust an auto trans in park to hold a car from rolling away. If you took a trans apart and saw the little piece of metal that holds the whole works .... wow! Tough little assembly it is, but I'd rather trust the e-brake.

[castigan]

id like to start a revolution in USA where by the EBRAKE would now be know as the HANDBRAKE.....

SPREAD THE WORD!!!!!!

i mean... ebrake???????? come on. hand brake makes a LOT more sense

[mdwyer]

id like to start a revolution in USA where by the EBRAKE would now be know as the HANDBRAKE..... i mean... ebrake???????? come on. hand brake makes a LOT more sense

That would take three more letters, and we're lazy. Why do you think we leave the U out of 'color' and 'flavor'?

[Chopper]

It's always been a handbrake, when it is on the console, and is operated by hand The pedal on the floor is a parking brake...I don't think they've been a true E-brake since Alpha separated brakes into two distinct loop systems, and stuck a small drum brake as a mechanical third on the rear disc (like ours) for the hand brake(think it was Alpha). Kind of moot point anyway...on most high-end cars, it's now electronic...activated by a dash button. Precisely the sort of crap tech that trickles down, diluting the driving experience. Weird at the very moment we are creating the most powerful,reliable, most exciting cars, ever in history to drive, the technology that created them is constantly working to destroy them

[castigan]

It's always been a handbrake, when it is on the console, and is operated by hand The pedal on the floor is a parking brake...I don't think they've been a true E-brake since Alpha separated brakes into two distinct loop systems, and stuck a small drum brake as a mechanical third on the rear disc (like ours) for the hand brake(think it was Alpha). Kind of moot point anyway...on most high-end cars, it's now electronic...activated by a dash button. Precisely the sort of crap tech that trickles down, diluting the driving experience. Weird at the very moment we are creating the most powerful,reliable, most exciting cars, ever in history to drive, the technology that created them is constantly working to destroy them

yea... i mean..emergecny brake? id like to know when would be the emergency that would deem the time to apply that brake!!!!

[Ldub]

yea... i mean..emergecny brake? id like to know when would be the emergency that would deem the time to apply that brake!!!!

When you wanna go in the other direction NOW...

[Ldub]

yea... i mean..emergecny brake? id like to know when would be the emergency that would deem the time to apply that brake!!!!

When you wanna go in the other direction, NOW...

[Chopper]

yea... i mean..emergecny brake? id like to know when would be the emergency that would deem the time to apply that brake!!!!

When your pedal goes to the floor and nothing happens....early E-Brakes grabbed the driveshaft itself.

[etlsport]

yep... part of my driving lessons required to get my md license was i had to stop the car without using the brake pedal (pretending a brake line broke or something and the brake pedal didnt respond) good skill to have just in case

[mdwyer]

When your pedal goes to the floor and nothing happens....early E-Brakes grabbed the driveshaft itself.

My dad told me about the e-brakes on the giant diesel-electric mining dump trucks. Regular braking was done by running the wheel motors backwards and heating up a big toaster-like resistor bank with the generated electricity. If they ever had to use the friction emergency brakes (I think he called them 'service brakes'), they would more or less burn out after one and only one use.

If you did a panic stop in something that large, you pretty much wrote it off and left it by the side of the road until you could go back and do a brake job on it.