I'm following a discussion on another forum about using the parking brake or not. Many say they don't use it and leave their car in first or reverse gear to prevent the parking brake from freezing in cold weather. I've had about 10 cars over the past 20 years (5 for private use, 5 or 6 for work) and always used the parking brake. Never had any problems with frozen brakes.

What are you using? And did your parking brakes ever freeze solid?

Carlo

I never used them much, of course if you don't use them the cables will corrode much faster.

Quote:

Precisely.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG_V4eB5PR4

I've never owned a car that had a working parking brake in it that you could trust.
The one in our new car may work, but it has an automatic, and I've never seen the point of a slush box coming equipped with a p-brake.

One time, I had a 1984  RX-7 that had one, I pulled it, and it engaged, but never released. Nice and expensive fix that I wasn't prepared for.

From that day forward, I won't touch them.  I don't live in an area where a car parked in gear would suddenly start rolling away without the additional aid of a parking brake.

Indiana is rather flat where I'm at.   

What's really bad, is that I did manage to use the correct spelling once. 



Give me a break, it's early over here.   

I've decided I should take a break from breaking my brakes as as it leads to me being broke.

Brake + reverse lock... I can park it with the parking brake loose, but i never do that

It partially froze once last year but that was in huge snow heaps. And you dont notice the clunk sound of it getting unstuck because the half frozen rubber bushings make a lot more noise

Parking brake is a latching brake which is mostly used to keep the vehicle stationary. Parking brake is very useful in order to prevent a vehicle from rolling on mountains and sliding. It s operated with hand and it stop the front wheel of the car. In bikes, it can be use for one wheeling.

expat wrote on Dec 21^st, 2012 at 11:21am:




Gettng his minimum posts in to post links.. I suppose

A parking Break, an open spot right by the entrance to the mall.

The only time... well, TWO times... a parking brake froze on me was on my first car, an old as Noah and as much as battered SIMCA 1307GLS I had in the 90ies, but it wasn't quite a FROZEN parking brake, it was a STUCK parking brake.

Once it happened while I was trying to start the car up after the night from the parking to go on my way, and trying to get it unstuck I almost fried the clutch, and the second time it partially stuck while I was driving, boiling the braking fluid over and giving me a nasty surprise when trying to break I had the sinking feeling of the brake pedal sinking itself all the way down to the pavement with the car barely even slowing down. Luckily the road was empty and nothing... untoward happened.

Even since then, my cars have always been of a better kind, and that never happened... beside one sole time, but it was MY FAULT for having left the parking brake partially engaged while driving on my old BMW, which had quite the weak parking brake that forced me to learn to park my car in first gear when the front was downhill, and in rear gear when the front was uphill, to be sure, almost never in neutral anyway. A procedure that has stuck with me and I do it always without thinking.