At the very least the clicking noise is a good measure of how far to pull it.. When I was younger I was taught to adjust the handbrake so that it held the car after 3 clicks
I still wont do this because that sound is horrendous.
It takes literally zero effort to pull, why is there even a debate? Bunch of thumb numb mongs.
In other news, water is wet.
Anybody who has seen the mechanism that keeps an e brake up knows it makes no difference
Worrying about the parking brake ratchet is like worrying about the ratchet wearing out in your socket wrench.
Yeah thats exactly what he said?
Who does that with the rachet/ socket wrench?
The hand brake lever in my 1979 Ford Escort is the one part I never touched when I rebuilt the car and it has always worked fine.
A few years back I had a Vectra, it was the C body. I received a letter from Vauxhall advising that there had been some cases where the lock on the hand brake had not engaged in the ratchet mechanism because of people pressing the button when using the handbrake. A few weeks later it happened to me. From that day forward I have never pressed the button when pulling the hand brake on, this way the lock always engages with the teeth on the ratchet.
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At the very least the clicking noise is a good measure of how far to pull it.. When I was younger I was taught to adjust the handbrake so that it held the car after 3 clicks
I still wont do this because that sound is horrendous.
It takes literally zero effort to pull, why is there even a debate? Bunch of thumb numb mongs.
In other news, water is wet.
Anybody who has seen the mechanism that keeps an e brake up knows it makes no difference
Worrying about the parking brake ratchet is like worrying about the ratchet wearing out in your socket wrench.
Yeah thats exactly what he said?
Who does that with the rachet/ socket wrench?
The hand brake lever in my 1979 Ford Escort is the one part I never touched when I rebuilt the car and it has always worked fine.
A few years back I had a Vectra, it was the C body. I received a letter from Vauxhall advising that there had been some cases where the lock on the hand brake had not engaged in the ratchet mechanism because of people pressing the button when using the handbrake. A few weeks later it happened to me. From that day forward I have never pressed the button when pulling the hand brake on, this way the lock always engages with the teeth on the ratchet.