Help!! Parking brake is stuck on! - RESOLVED
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Add me. Right after I got it home, I set the brake before letting my daughter take it for a spin. I noticed that there was a smell after a short while, then recognized what it was ..... hot brakes!
She pulled over and I fumbled for a few minutes before realizing how the e-brake actually worked. No damage done except to kill some brake wear life.
Poor Liz thought she broke Daddy's new car!
She pulled over and I fumbled for a few minutes before realizing how the e-brake actually worked. No damage done except to kill some brake wear life.
Poor Liz thought she broke Daddy's new car!
#28
I think they call it a "fly off" handbrake. The British used to, and maybe still do, have a auto event called "trials". It's sort of like an off road rally. In trials you use the handbrake a lot and this system they found the most efficient. As a result, it has found it's way onto lots of British "sporting" autos.
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I guess the reasons will be lost in history but I suspect the answer is more boring. If you paid north of £50k ($75US ish) for your car, you don't want to be impaled on the handbrake (that's what we call it ) when you try to get into your vehicle. So ...... Jaguar made sure it was well out of the way before anyone tried to slide over it to get into the driving seat.
Doubtless a hanging offence...
#31
OMG I feel like an idiot. Went to the car wash and for some reason they felt the need to pull the handle up. Got in saw the light on. Push the button and nothing. Thought it was stuck. Drove home and looked in the owners manual,no help. Searched here and 2 minutes later fixed. Thanks guys.🤦*♂️
#32
I think they call it a "fly off" handbrake. The British used to, and maybe still do, have a auto event called "trials". It's sort of like an off road rally. In trials you use the handbrake a lot and this system they found the most efficient. As a result, it has found it's way onto lots of British "sporting" autos.
#33
Hi, I have a 1997 Jaguar xk8 my grandfather gave to me recently. It is in his garage. When I went to move it out the ebrake is stuck. I am aware that you have to lift it until there is significant tension, then press the button WHILE pulling up at the same time. Now lower the brake while keeping the button depressed. However, the button is stuck at halfway. The lever is freely moving however when I pull the lever all the way up and try to press the button it only goes down another quarter as if something is blocking it. The button is stuck in the halfway in any position. So when I try to press the button in any position it does not catch on to anything and I can have the button depressed from the halfway position and it will not catch anything. Do you know what to do to resolve it? Thank you.
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