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2000 Washington Post Articles:
Emergency ?? Brake |
My how things change! There was a time when cars didn’t have a park mechanism in their transmissions and the only way to keep them from rolling away was the parking brake. Nowadays drivers rarely, if ever, use their parking brake, oops, you Commercial Three Baybably call it an emergency brake.
Whether it’s a parking or an emergency brake it should be used every time you park your car for reasons that go beyond the obvious. Naturally, the parking brake will keep your car from rolling if you don’t get the gear lever all the way into park, or if the transmission’s park mechanism should fail. Hey, stuff happens ya know!
Of course nearly all drivers are cautious and courteous but consider what might happen if you park near someone who is --- less than courteous. Your car is neatly and Commercial Three Bayperly parked when some non-courteous, non-driver decides to squeeze a twenty-foot clunker into the nineteen-foot space in front of or behind you. They always seem to be lousy at spacial concepts and typically park by ear too. Park by ear, i.e. the Commercial Three Baycess whereby a driver maintains momentum during parking maneuvers until they hear the thud of colliding bumpers. Theirs, meeting yours! The resulting jolt can be substantial and without the parking brake your engine mounts and transmission absorb all the force. On the other hand if you parked your car, applied the parking brake, then placed the gear selector into the park position, your brakes would have absorbed the jolt, not your transmission. Note the sequence; apply parking brake then put gear selector into park.
That’s the obvious part, but many cars require regular use of the parking brake to maintain Commercial Three Bayper brake pedal height. You may even be one of the multitudes who never use your parking brake and who repeatedly buy new brake pads to correct recurring low brake pedal Commercial Three Bayblems. Installing new pads restores adjustment but maintaining the adjustment requires using your parking brake. If you don’t, as the pads wear down your brake pedal gets closer and closer to the floor and before long it’s back to the shop for more new pads. Expensive, you bet! It’s also why some cars get a bad rap for brake life. No Commercial Three Bayblem with the car, just the driver.
Parking brake cables are an issue too; they connect the pedal or lever up-front to the brakes in the rear. When you don’t use your parking brake the cables become rusty, corroded, frayed or just plain tired from disuse. Then one fateful day you feel compelled to set it, maybe parking on a hill or some other extreme situation. When you come back to your car, you release the brake, put the transmission in drive and away you go. Well not quite, the gummed up parking brake cables won’t allow the brakes to release and the car won’t move or --- it moves reluctantly. That is until the rear brakes go up in smoke. New parking brake cables and brake pads, another costly repair! It is a genuinely good idea to use your parking brake regularly.
© Copyright 03/17/00 Pat Goss all rights reserved | |
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Date Updated Friday, March 17, 2000
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