Electric parking brake

[NJBob]

This is my first vehicle with an electric "emergency" brake. When I first got it I didn't care for it. On other vehicles I have used the manual e brake to get to a safe area when my brakes failed. This would be impossible with the Mav as you cannot modulate the force applied. This has happened maybe 3 times in my 50 years of driving. But now having the Mav for a bit over a year I use it every time I park the car, very easy. In the past I only used the parking brake on manual transmission cars when parking. This was one item I hated when I first got it but like it now.

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[ThisWas]

NJBob, if I may ask a personal question, who is the beneficiary of your will?

You've survived "brake failures" three times now... you want to think about having someone taste your food before you eat it.

 

[NJBob]

My wife is.

 

[V-blue Mav]

NJBob, if I may ask a personal question, who is the beneficiary of your will?

You've survived "brake failures" three times now... you want to think about having someone taste your food before you eat it.

I have actually had it happen twice in 50 years. Both slow brake fluid leaks. 1st at the master cylinder, second found leaky rusted brake line after work.....

 

[NJBob]

Mostly same bad brake lines.

 

[ThisWas]

NJBob, I apologize for making light of your brake failures. My only related misfortune occurred when I was a teenager parking cars at a restaurant. I fetched a customer's Oldsmobile then leapt out of the car without setting the parking brake, relying on the automatic transmission which I'd set to "Park" to hold the car on a slight slope. I didn't realize that the parking pawl didn't work until the big Olds started rolling away. As I ran after it the owner said, "Yeah, it does that."

 

[NJBob]

NJBob, I apologize for making light of your brake failures. My only related misfortune occurred when I was a teenager parking cars at a restaurant. I fetched a customer's Oldsmobile then leapt out of the car without setting the parking brake, relying on the automatic transmission which I'd set to "Park" to hold the car on a slight slope. I didn't realize that the parking pawl didn't work until the big Olds started rolling away. As I ran after it the owner said, "Yeah, it does that."

Thanks that happened to me delivering pizzas. The pizza car started rolling down a slight hill while delivering a pie. I caught it in time. That car was a POS. It was a Ford Falcon.

 

[MakinDoForNow]

My wife is.

I am always hesitant to eat food prepared by a beneficiary!

 

[Scott Asheville]

I've also grown to love the electronic parking brake. I drove manual shift vehicles my whole life before the Maverick. I would definitely have missed the hand brake in my three Miatas because of stops on steep HILLS. That handbrake saves you on a steep hill, when somebody noses up 5 inches from your bumper at a stop light.

 

[Timothyd]

This is my first vehicle with an electric "emergency" brake. When I first got it I didn't care for it. On other vehicles I have used the manual e brake to get to a safe area when my brakes failed. This would be impossible with the Mav as you cannot modulate the force applied. This has happened maybe 3 times in my 50 years of driving. But now having the Mav for a bit over a year I use it every time I park the car, very easy. In the past I only used the parking brake on manual transmission cars when parking. This was one item I hated when I first got it but like it now.

Wish I had the manual brake. Easier to turn around in the snow and gravel.

 

[Timothyd]

I've also grown to love the electronic parking brake. I drove manual shift vehicles my whole life before the Maverick. I would definitely have missed the hand brake in my three Miatas because of stops on steep HILLS. That handbrake saves you on a steep hill, when somebody noses up 5 inches from your bumper at a stop light.

That too!

 

[Grand Nat.]

Happened to me twice from brake line failures while road testing vehicles. I'd rather have a manual parking brakes. What worries me most about electronic parking brakes is if the system fails and they don't disengage you would be stuck. Hopefully putting it in a service mode would you get you back home. If that's possible. Don't know if the transmission selector would be locked in service mode.

 

[RHButler]

Wonder if anyone has noticed difficulty doing your own brake job? Could the electronic hand brake affect this?

 

[NJBob]

Wonder if anyone has noticed difficulty doing your own brake job? Could the electronic hand brake affect this?

Great question! Rear brakes have always been more of a pain than the front. Think I read somewhere that there is some kind of procedure you need to do.

 

[Mervin the Maverick]

This is my first vehicle with an electric "emergency" brake. When I first got it I didn't care for it. On other vehicles I have used the manual e brake to get to a safe area when my brakes failed. This would be impossible with the Mav as you cannot modulate the force applied. This has happened maybe 3 times in my 50 years of driving. But now having the Mav for a bit over a year I use it every time I park the car, very easy. In the past I only used the parking brake on manual transmission cars when parking. This was one item I hated when I first got it but like it now.

I still prefer a hand brake for the parking/e-brake. I too have had two or three occasions where I needed that in an emergency, not to mention the fun of using it in a snow covered empty parking lot. But, that was all years and years ago. Modern vehicles just don’t have the same issues of mid-seventies cars.

I do recommend that with every vehicle, manual, automatic, or eCVT, that you ALWAYS engage the parking brake before putting the vehicle in Park. That one inch roll that you feel when placing the vehicle in Park is actually the transmission stopping the movement. This put a lot of unwanted stress on the transmission, regardless of what time it is.

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