Parking brake. It drives me nuts!

[50 and Fabulous]

No, I can't. How would you accidentally engage the parking brake? (Not an e-brake unless e means electric). I assume it's "smart" enough to know when you're moving and it wouldn't engage no matter what you did with it.

Some Ford electric e brakes like say in the last generation of Fusion were placed on the center console next to the cupholders. Passengers could brake all 4 with abs at anytime. It would stop in a perfect straight line, brake lights and all. Edges and Escapes are the same too. I'm typically the driver but as a passenger it is cool to actually have something as a braking option besides just pushing my foot through the passenger floor!

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[Daktari]

The one thing I that has crossed my mind is the functionality of the electronic parking brake means there isn't really an emergency brake function; at least not how it used to be used for brake failures. Gear down until you hit 1st and then hit the eParking brake and slide to a stop I guess?

There is, you have to keep pulling the little handle to keep the break engaged in an emergency. If you just pull it like setting it for park it'll disengage again since it things you want to drive. Keep pulling the handle and the break will stay engaged. An other reason why the location is not great. If I'm going down hill and the breaks go out, I'd rather have a lever closer by than having to lean forward and reach down left while steering with the right and trying not to panic. Well, I hope I'll never have to use that function, but if the lever were somewhere in the center it would make daily operations easier too. But you also don't want someone to mistake it for the window up or down switch by mistake.

As for using the parking break, I always set it, always have, manual or automatic, that's just how I learned it. Keep stress of what ever transmission, especially on a hill of course, but I find it easier to just set it all the time than having to remember to set it on a hill. Just like I always lock my front door, even if I know I'll go back out in a moment. Can't forget what's automatic ;-)

My Taco has that T-handle on the right, all other cars had the traditional lever in the center (so much fun in the snow with front wheel drive!). It's handy that the Bronco disengages automatically, rentals aside it's my first vehicle with an electronic/electric parking break.

 

[Broncodave]

Forget the parking brake! We have "breaking" news!

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[Silver-Bolt]

This is news to me I have had many auto trans vehicles and never had to use the e brake unless it was a really steep incline so your saying the parking brake should always be engaged if it’s recommended to always use the p brake I will but I have heard horror stories about the bronco p brake like the handle breaking or it being permantly stuck so you can’t move the vehicle some people got engine codes from using it lol guess there’s only one way to find out

Here is what a "Park" gear looks like. I won't count on this to hold a 6000lb Bronco.

 

[tyrobronco]

Here is what a "Park" gear looks like. I won't count on this to hold a 6000lb Bronco.

Especially on an incline - or if someone bumps your truck in the lot.

Fun Fact:

So I tried out this "turn it on and the parking break disengages" 3 times. It never disengaged until I hit the lever.

You have to have the break depressed to disengage the parking break but definitely not a turn it on and it turns off automatically situation, which, to me, is a good thing.

 

[Roll Sound]

Especially on an incline - or if someone bumps your truck in the lot.

Fun Fact:

So I tried out this "turn it on and the parking break disengages" 3 times. It never disengaged until I hit the lever.

You have to have the break depressed to disengage the parking break but definitely not a turn it on and it turns off automatically situation, which, to me, is a good thing.

You have to be in D, then accelerate, and it disengages.

 

[wilbersk]

You all are using the parking brake?

You always should to keep stress off the transmission

 

[wilbersk]

Kinda. When my wife and I went they told us to make sure we engage the parking brake every time we stopped (meaning on the trails for additional safety). So now that's what my wife does in her automatic. Every time she parks, p-brake comes on. Drives me nuts when I jump in and try to drive somewhere. Throw it in drive or reverse and get nothing, oh yeah, parking brake is on.

She’s doing the right thing. It’s good practice all the time and good for the vehicle.

 

[tyrobronco]

You have to be in D, then accelerate, and it disengages.

Okay. I won't be trying that deliberately.

 

[Roll Sound]

Okay. I won't be trying that deliberately.

I guess they say it's a feature. But I never release it that way. Seems like it should never do that. Like if parked in an upper level parking garage and you smash gas instead of brake, or D instead of R, you' ll fly right off the building.

 

[Broncodave]

I guess they say it's a feature. But I never release it that way. Seems like it should never do that. Like if parked in an upper level parking garage and you smash gas instead of brake, or D instead of R, you' ll fly right off the building.

The concrete walls would probably stop you.

 

[ZipZit]

Anybody else remember the Off Roadeo parking brake process?

Here’s a nice summary

https://www.bronco6g.com/forum/thre...eo-bronco-drive-notes-video.21906/post-781668

Basically you first shift to neutral, then apply parking brake, release foot from brake pedal, and finally shift to park, every time you stop.

 

[Roll Sound]

The concrete walls would probably stop you.

Those and the cables don't. I know of several cases. Look it up.





Here's just two examples.

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