Thread: And you thought you knew how the EPB worked

And after all that, I still don't see what's wrong with a traditional handbrake lever operating a cable, that doesn't require an electric motor and several pages of explanation

Originally Posted by Mike_S

And after all that, I still don't see what's wrong with a traditional handbrake lever operating a cable, that doesn't require an electric motor and several pages of explanation

And after reading that I take it that if the battery is dead or the electrics play up you have no emergency or hand brake at all ??
The way it works with a drum inside the disk is the same as on my current 80 series, but that is muscle operating the cables not electrics !

DD

My 1979 Subaru had the handbrake working on the front disks, so I have no idea why a 2005+ D3 etc needs to have a separate drum system and the ridiculous electric operating system - at least they could have made the manual override system simple to to use without having to pull half the centre console apart - even harder in the RRS than it is in the D3.

Garry

Originally Posted by garrycol

My 1979 Subaru had the handbrake working on the front disks, so I have no idea why a 2005+ D3 etc needs to have a separate drum system and the ridiculous electric operating system - at least they could have made the manual override system simple to to use without having to pull half the centre console apart - even harder in the RRS than it is in the D3.

Garry

The separate drum/transmission brake is quite common and very effective, particularly if the (normal) brakes have been compromised.

The EPB makes for some pretty sexy hill holding and emergency stopping, but it's still a scary liability, for sure!

Thats rediculous!! I can see why it costs SOOOOO much money to develop cars, I think there was about 10mil that went into the development of that alone!!

I've heard that in some legal jurisdictions, the regs require that parking brakes be "idiot proofed". That's why in the (no longer available) manuals the PB's automatically applied when the engine was turned off. Here in a delightful, but small/remote country, we end up with a rump of requirements which aren't required here but are required elsewhere.

I went to Fraser Island a month or so ago and the conditions from Kingfisher Bay to Central Station were pretty hairy. It had been dry for months, which on Fraser creates very deep, soft sand. But just before I got there it had been raining for a week or so......the tracks were torn to shreds and had huge water filled holes and ruts. I had sand and mud everywhere.

After a stop at Lake Mckenzie, there was this god almighty screaching when I tried to drive away. I was in low range and was unaware of any reluctance to move, but the noise was horrendous. After a few hundred meters it stopped.

Was that the EPB?

Did you check under your vehicle for a Jap 4 X 4 rental full of non english speaking tourists who think that "four wheel drive" means "you can drive up Mt Everest and through 8 foot of water" ???