Parking brake

[Aren Jay]

Mine doesn't appear to work. Or it works but not very well.

I even left it on by accident once until the red light bothered me enough for me to figure out what it was. Quickly remedied this but it has felt for a long time like my Parking brake is always on. I had a similar feeling in my Subaru but that was because of the AWD friction.

Is it possible that it is stuck on?

[Zack]

It needs adjusting.
It is set up like old drum brakes with a star wheel.
Very simple to do.

[ctrlraven]

I adjusted mine a long time ago then it seem too stiff. After bleeding my brakes a few months ago it went right back to how it should be, firm and it holds the car better now.

[Aren Jay]

I have the feeling that some here think I know what I'm doing with car mechanicals.

Yes I did take one Shop class of Automotives back in highschool once. Yes I can figure out how brakes work because that is what was covered in that class. Yes I still remember this. (Curse of a good memory) Yes I remember the class in detail.

However, I know next to nothing about how to fix a car, although it isn't that complicated.

I tend to let other people fix cars and watches now.

Side story I was in my server classes for my MCSE and my watch stopped working. So I, in my wisdom, knowing how to build servers (soft and hard) and any kind of computer etc... think that I must also know how to fix a watch.

I now have a good battery in a broken watch. Since then I have come to the conclusion that watch battery's are impossible to replace, so when my watch battery dies, I buy a new watch.

I have a great watch collection.

So I just need to have someone who knows what they are doing, to tighten it?

[TiTo35]

Mine doesn't appear to work. Or it works but not very well.

I even left it on by accident once until the red light bothered me enough for me to figure out what it was. Quickly remedied this but it has felt for a long time like my Parking brake is always on. I had a similar feeling in my Subaru but that was because of the AWD friction.

Is it possible that it is stuck on?

Are you saying you drove with the EM brake on?
When I put my car in drive it pops off...

[Stranger in the Black Sedan]

Tito, the 300A's (the good MM's!) like ours have that feature. I don't think the later ones do.

[larryo340]

If you drove for awhile with the parking brake on there is a good chance you cooked the shoes. They are made to hold the car on a hill, but when they get hot they get very brittle and come off the metal shoe.

Ask me how I know

[imorb1994]

Tito, the 300A's (the good MM's!) like ours have that feature. I don't think the later ones do.

Sad but true