Parking Brake @ 75MPH!!

[Houm_WA]

No arguments; it's a cool brake. ...just don't want it to have a mind of its own.

...and I've posted here before about this feature of being able to pull the e-brake while moving relatively fast. It's one of the coolest features...I've done it on ice & snow and it's incredible. ...fastest I've stopped from is 30 MPH though.

...and for the record that should not affect the issue posted about here because you have to hold up the knob to continue the stopping action. If the knob is accidentally pulled up momentarily it will not have much of an effect.

 

[trm2]

No arguments; it's a cool brake. ...just don't want it to have a mind of its own.

...and I've posted here before about this feature of being able to pull the e-brake while moving relatively fast. It's one of the coolest features...I've done it on ice & snow and it's incredible. ...fastest I've stopped from is 30 MPH though.

...and for the record that should not affect the issue posted about here because you have to hold up the knob to continue the stopping action. If the knob is accidentally pulled up momentarily it will not have much of an effect.

cool -- so you can "drift" your LR3 through corners by only pulling the brake up for a few seconds?

 

[Houm_WA]

I guess you could if you wanted to, but I'm not going to be the first to try it.

 

[toddjb122]

Any harm or adverse wear to things if you pull this on rare occasions while driving? The review link makes it sound like a feature! (well, I guess it kind of is, but...)

...One thing I didn't like at first was the absence of a traditional parking brake. I like depressing a pedal and feeling it engage. In the LR3, the brake is electronic. You simply pull the knob and it engages. It also disengages automatically when you put it in drive and hit the gas. I liked it a little more when we tested it out driving on the highway. The LR rep said, "Go ahead, just pull it," as we drove along at 60 mph. The driver at the time, another journalist, looked at him like he was out of his mind. "Now?" he asked incredulously. "Yep, go ahead," the rep said calmly, not even grabbing on to an "oh-crap!" handle.

When he did, an alarm sounded and the LR3 braked to an immediate, if less than tire-squealing, stop. It's one of the many safety features standard on the LR3, some of which include eight available airbags and ABS....

 

[PakiRover]

Happened to me too...

This past sunday, driving on the highway at around 75mph, I felt increasing vibration starting in my seat then finally to the steering wheel. I remembered reading this thread and was hoping it wasnt the e-brake. I pulled over, and sure enough, all the tires were fine and the right rear rotor smelled like it was burnt. I deployed and released the e-brake, and turned back home. Same thing happened again, requiring the same treatment. I drove home, about 40 miles, staying under 60mph, without having the problem again.

So I re-read this thread, took the car in to LR SA, told them about the new brake job one month, 2000 miles ago, asked them to check and see if an e-brake shoe or pin had come loose. This was met with their usual ignorant/flabergasted/arrogant expression. They then told me that they needed to keep the car overnight. Again, no loaner because I bought the car from a private seller and not their dealership (this is their usual policy as well). They did have it ready the next day, and told me the problem was due to a faulty e-brake lever! I dont even know if they checked the e-brake, but hope that they did. It runs fine now, and the lever seems to have a nice newly-lubed feel to it. I just hope that the shoe or pin spontaneously went back into place and that I dont have to go back in to the dealership and deal with these people again.

Also, I cant wait to move to a city where there is more than one LR dealership so that they actually have to compete with each other for bad service.

 

[duckdive]

I always thought the e-brake lever was more like a big switch. Not a mechanism. Can anyone
expand?

 

[ChuckD]

Your experience, except at the dealer, is eerily similar to mine at the top of this thread! To my knowledge there had been no brake work done on mine during its six months as a loaner.

ChuckD

 

[ChuckD]

I always thought the e-brake lever was more like a big switch. Not a mechanism. Can anyone
expand?

Next time I'm under the truck I'll try to find out how the whole thing works. The handle is most surely just a switch.

ChuckD

 

[trm2]

Before experiencing the e-brake problem, did those who experienced it use the e-brake a lot, sometimes, or never?

 

[PakiRover]

exactly...

It feels like a switch and not a lever, thats why I dont understand how the dealership could blame it for this problem. Unless the fault was that the switch automatically turned on, and then after two faults, corrected itself. It make more sense that a shoe or pin that was holding the ebrake came out of place, and after reapplication, righted itself. BTW, I never used the e-brake.