Thread: Park Brake Fail ??

D4 MY10 150k on the clock. 2 weeks ago SWMBO was driving home 140 kilometres from home on the road south of Warialda NSW at 8:30pm when a piece of the park brake pad came loose and jammed the rear right wheel solid. The car stopped!! she said it stopped dead straight leaving an impressive flat spot on the rear right wheel and a mark on the bitumen a burnout competitor would have been proud of. No mobile service so she skull dragged it off the road with the other three wheels in low range rock crawl mode and set about attempting to rock it back and forth to release the brake. (all those lessons paid off from owning other lesser vehicles over the years). She freed it up and drove into town to the NRMA (late callout $$$$). They checked it over. Couldnt find anything wrong and sent her on her way home. Slowly !!!!!! I drove out to meet her and we nursed it home. Took the guys in the workshop at my office a while to find it and ordered replacement parts to fix. While checking the brakes over found a hairline crack in the brake disc of the wheel in question and replaced this as well as replaced all pads and sensors on all 4 wheels. All I can say is that I am glad it was she who it happened to, I dont know if I could have been as calm at that time of night in the middle of nowhere and think as level headed as she did in the same circumstance. Very proud!

My misses would have called me to tell me something was wrong, not explain the symptoms, then get frustrated with me for not having a solution.

Cheers,
Ben