Recent content by Mad Max

But if you are parked on a flat surface how would the car roll either way?

As I stated in my original post, if you are on an incline then you obviously use a parking brake and I've been doing that for the 40 plus years I've been driving. If you're on a flat surface it's not going to hurt your transmission or anything else whatsoever

This is my first vehicle with an electric parking brake, so my experience may be worthless but I have found that not using a parking brake leads to a much faster failure of the components than using the parking brake ever has. Oh I would definitely keep using it but when you stop and think that...

May not be a big deal until you have to replace those bloody expensive calipers because they're being used in situations where they're not needed. Obviously parking on any sort of incline would warrant the use of a parking brake but when you're on a flat surface your parking brake is just...

I think the big problem here is the fact that these Electric parking brake calipers are bloody expensive to replace so with it being used constantly it's going to wear them out 100 times faster than normal. Obviously smart people will use them on any type of incline but when parked on the flat...