• RubberElectrons@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Dude that’s serious as fuck, wow. How did your wind up stopping, parking brake? I’ve been worried about this ever since parking brakes became electric vs the older cable types.

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      2 days ago

      Luckily I had just made it into the driveway before they completely failed so I was able to put it into park. But yeah, the parking brake is cable operated luckily! I had a new brake line brought to me and I replaced it in the driveway and brought the brakes back to life.

      Here’s a picture of what it looked like before I replaced it Said twisted brake hose before removal

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        16 hours ago

        luckily!

        No luck in it, it’s part of the car design rules, even modern electronic automatic parking brakes are cable operated

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          5 hours ago

          I meant that it was a manual brake, not electronically actuated. My bad on that part

          I’m not sure if electronic parking brakes can be set to different strengths like a manual one can or even activated while you’re moving (in case of an emergency)