Thread: All the time or not?

Originally Posted by LandyAndy

You can do that at highway speed with your hands off the wheel safely Im lead to believe.

Yet to try

Andrew

I've done it
It's umm... Abrupt!!!


Back to the matter at hand.
I spend a heck of a lot of time driving dirt, bull dust and have done several trips where it got so covered in mud you could only see a shear line where the wheels were and the underbody was covered everywhere.

It's now been 4.5 years, it's only had factory services and not a single issue with the EPB..

You can hear if it's getting tight by listening when you engage it.

Originally Posted by LandyAndy

I the ecu put the trans in park,I saw the lights on the rotary dial move to indicate

Well isn't that a smart car! The 6 speed can't do that, so that would be why there is the automatic EPB application when in neutral.

Originally Posted by IndusD4

Sounds like applying the handbrake automatically is a feature on the later models, my 2011 model doesn't do that.



It might be a UK feature, as I believe driving instructors teach you to pull the handbrake on when stopping at a traffic light and put the car in neutral. Which is probably why the lights go from red to amber before going green giving you a few seconds to get ready for take off.



Ron

I read (Wikipedia so not sure how accurate https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZF_8HP_transmission ) that the 8 speed automatically selects neutral when the car is stationary to conserve fuel. We had a Vectra (2001 or 2 I think) and this did it too. It was much more noticeable when you took your foot off the brake and it went into drive than the 8 speed does!!

Vehicle doesn't "shut down" all its systems when left in neutral either.

I thought I would check out how the EPB works on my MY16 D4 so today I stopped, put it in N and turned ignition off. P was not selected automatically and the car started to roll away. Next, I turned the ignition off when in D, the car will automatically select P but EPB is not engaged automatically.

Originally Posted by Tombie

You can hear if it's getting tight by listening when you engage it.

What does it sound like? Ive only heard the grinding of it jamming. It unjammed a couple of times by itself (at the time i didnt know what it was, so didnt stop using it) other than that no noticeable noise. Its a bit noisier now tho...

Cheers

Dan

Originally Posted by rocket rod

I thought I would check out how the EPB works on my MY16 D4 so today I stopped, put it in N and turned ignition off. P was not selected automatically and the car started to roll away. Next, I turned the ignition off when in D, the car will automatically select P but EPB is not engaged automatically.

Did you get the warning when you hit the stop button???
Mine said not in park,definately went into park either when I opened the door or when I got out of the seat,definately saw the lights on the knob change to park.
Andrew

I didn't open the door so maybe that's why it didn't give me a warning.