I live in the NE and it gets freezing at night. With my last 3 cars, if I leave the e-brake engaged at night, it sticks in the Am when I need to leave. The last few days I have had to drive with it stuck engaged. It eventually resides and has shown no signs of being wore down. What can I do to avoid this. I live in a hill, so I need the e-brake. I have a saab, so I have to leave the car in reverse. Any suggestions?
2007-01-31 13:55:30 · 3 answers · asked by Karter 2 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Other - Cars & Transportation
What happens is water gets up in there and freezes overnight, keeping it from releasing. A good lubricant usually helps, but nothing I know of that is fool-proof to keep it from freezing.
Other than finding a level surface to park on, about your only other option is to use some wheel chocks. Get a set of 4 so you have one for each wheel. When parking, set the park brake, then get out and put the chocks in front of the tires right up against them (on the downhill side of the tire), then get back in and while pressing the brake pedal, release the park brake and make sure the chocks are holding the vehicle in place. Then put it in gear while resting against the chocks so there is pressure on them. In the morning, just back up a little and remove them, if they freeze to the tire, a kick should knock them loose.
Of course, they're not as effective if there's ice on the road.
2007-01-31 15:44:36 · answer #1 · answered by Mark B 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
every time you utilize the parking brake in a motor vehicle with an computerized transmission each and every time the parking place isn't completely point (and there are virtually none, in need of an upscale airplane runway - no longer even then quite), the parking brake takes the strain of the load of the motor vehicle off of the transmission, given which you have interaction the parking brake once you have located the transmission into P together as conserving the brake pedal down and removing your foot from the brake pedal only after the parking brake is desperate. confident, there are advantages.
2016-11-23 18:58:52 · answer #2 · answered by becher 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The most important is to use your parking brake regularly so that the movement will keep it mobile. You can have the cable removed and lubricated if it's not too difficult to remove or try lubing it while in place, try to spray into the housing. Using an oil type rust proofing helps keep things moving as well. I've also experienced weak or missing return spring(s) underneath, this helps pull cable back to resting position.
2007-01-31 14:40:48 · answer #3 · answered by wheeler 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋