Thread: D3 TDV6 Electronic Park Brake failure

Pull the EPB emergency release cable then don't attempt to use the EPB until the fault is investigated. The cause could be as simple as the EPB shoes are out of adjustment or as bad as needing a new EPB module.

Originally Posted by Graeme

Pull the EPB emergency release cable then don't attempt to use the EPB until the fault is investigated. The cause could be as simple as the EPB shoes are out of adjustment or as bad as needing a new EPB module.

thanks mate, where is this cable located?

It behaved itself early this morning for the short drive to train station and is booked into KHOR early Monday morning. It can sit in the garage over the weekend and cool it's heels!

If you can drive it, no need to pull the cable. Just stick some masking tape over the switch to remind yourself not to use it.

Originally Posted by PeterOZ

thanks mate, where is this cable located?

It behaved itself early this morning for the short drive to train station and is booked into KHOR early Monday morning. It can sit in the garage over the weekend and cool it's heels!

Land Rover LR3 Electric Parking Brake - YouTube


Worth knowing how to release the brake. Watch the video as it takes a huge effort to pull on the three times I have used it. I can use pliers with a lot of muscle. The video is of a Left hand drive but the position of the cable is the same for ours.

Originally Posted by NavyDiver

Land Rover LR3 Electric Parking Brake - YouTube


Worth knowing how to release the brake. Watch the video as it takes a huge effort to pull on the three times I have used it. I can use pliers with a lot of muscle. The video is of a Left hand drive but the position of the cable is the same for ours.

As we used to say in the RAAF "RTFB"

Wondered what that hook was for in the toolkit, I use that term loosely too.

thanks for sharing that video, currently watching the ones on how to repair the thing. Though it is going into KHOR Monday morning.

cheers
P

Originally Posted by PeterOZ

As we used to say in the RAAF "RTFB"

Wondered what that hook was for in the toolkit, I use that term loosely too.

thanks for sharing that video, currently watching the ones on how to repair the thing. Though it is going into KHOR Monday morning.

cheers
P

Jeeze did it again - Birdy recovery was one of my specialties while getting wet. To be honest not the happiest outcomes in the past so you're much more welcome.

My wire is a little tricky to get hold of as well and not as large or shiney as the one in the video. I have used long nosed pliers on the last effort. Id guess every 80,000 or so KM I have played with it usually when wet, muddy and long way from home.

Originally Posted by NavyDiver

Jeeze did it again - Birdy recovery was one of my specialties while getting wet. To be honest not the happiest outcomes in the past so you're much more welcome.

My wire is a little tricky to get hold of as well and not as large or shiney as the one in the video. I have used long nosed pliers on the last effort. Id guess every 80,000 or so KM I have played with it usually when wet, muddy and long way from home.

Can relate mate, I was on one of the first crash recovery teams for F111 A8-127 at Guyra NSW, 450 kts, inverted and almost vertical when it went in. Not a lot of the aircraft or crew left. I knew the driver and his Nav as they used to come into our section to get TVs & VCRs repaired. Very sad times.

Did not need to use the emergency brake release thank goodness, did some running about Sat morning for an hour, about 15km without issue though this morning driving it to KHOR to get fixed I could disinctly feel the park brake applied as when I lifted my foot to coast it slowed down very quickly, had a bit of a clunk at one stage but got it there without incident.

Wrote them a fault report and timeline (Engineer / Project manager in me )

See what they find.
cheers
Peter