Thread: electronic park brake for defenders and series vehicles

Why the hell would you want to replace something simple, reliable and easy to diagnose with one of those devils spawn? I can see exactly zero benefit from an EPB in a vehicle that already has a functioning mechanical park brake.

To be fair, as far as I can see the only advantage in the D3 is the interaction with the ABS where if you are moving faster than walking pace pulling the EPB switch will make the car do an emergency stop before applying the brake. The only time I can foresee that being useful is if the booster or master cylinder fails.

Why?

Get rid of that stupid handbrake lever! Mind you, I have fitted an LT230 and was able to run the Discovery handbrake lever inbetween the 2 front seats.

Originally Posted by JDNSW

Why?

for people with limited mobility and strength in their left arm.

For people without a left arm

to make it easier to manage a stall start for people without the strength and body agility to co-ordinate all the movements required to do a stall start (or a hill start)

as part of upgrading from the oil soaked slipping drum to the easier to maintain disc brake configuration, if you're already on the anorak rivit counter lined road to hades for doing something not from the factory you might as well go whole hog

becuase it might entice some of the new generation into doing something properly if we make the hard stuff just a little easier for them to co-ordinate with and maybe they might put it back to proper working condition later.

For integrating into an E conversion

so you too can have something that makes an annoying screech as it puts the brake on for you rather thant the annoying racking of a ratchet as you do it yourself manually

just off the top of my head,