the e brake locks up the rear wheels only right?

 

correcto

 

sweet

 

I hope you are not thinking what I think you are thinking.

 

cough*drifting*cough

 

drifting in a front wheel drive car FTL

 

calling a parking brake an e-brake ftl

 

 

no no no, i would never even atempt to drift with my car.... it just does work..... i just had my car up on a lift with the *parking brake up* and notce my front wheels still spun.... just got a little worried.... haha , thx guys...... im not a complete noob

 

k good. like that pic though hahahahah

 

haha yeah, nice pic.....

 

lets not get started about this bc the "parking brake" is used often in cases of emergencies and in automatic cars its basically the only reason its there

 

said like a true man

 

Proof?

Not calling b.s., but I do believe a parking brake is federally mandated and can even serve a purpose on an automatic for parking on very steep hills.

And I also do believe that a Nissan technician got sued along with his dealership for writing a fix on a work order and calling it an emergency brake then the customer used the lever thinking it will help them in an emergency and actually got severely hurt.

Not to mention its hard calling a brake that locks up the rear wheels and causes the car to generally loose control as an emergency brake.

 

What if you're brakes stopped working? Then you could gently pull the ebrake to slow down..

 

If your brakes suddenly stopped working, as highly unlikely as that is now a days, you downshift. All cars have that ability so you can make a CONTROLLED slow/stop. Plus doing this won't destroy your parking brake by using it at 80 mph.

 

You'll still need it to bring the car to a complete stop unless you want to coast to a stop. You down shift to slow down but after that, you still got around 3000 lbs on wheels.

Brakes can fail. You just need to be unlucky. Unlikely, yeah, but it happened to a friend of mine.

I'm not saying it should be an "emergency" brake because clearly, it'll cause more harm than good in an 80 mph "emergency." People should just know what it does and how it does it and be wise about the whole affair (just like people should know how to use the spare tire, how to change oil, where the tow hooks are, etc.)

For the record, I call it an "E brake" because "parking brake" takes too long and "P brake" sounds like something you gotta do when someone catches you marking territory.

 

honestly e brake sounds betta