Zesty
Not A Dude
- Joined
- Sep 24, 2007
- Messages
- 2,861
- Location
- Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
- Car(s)
- 05 Honda Jazz VTi-S
I hate rain after a dry period, my pretty sparkly blue car is.....brown. No time to clean it until next weekend now either. Yuck!
Oh yeah.
I have to say though, one of my favorite Aussie muscle cars is the old Charger with the fantastic sounding straight six engine.
If I had an AMC Eagle that was customised as heavily as the cars you posted it would be fun trying.
I'd like to see a stock Cheyenne do that too.
I don't class old-scool 4x4s as SUVs either, even if they technically are it's an insult to them.
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You can use it in an emergency if the regular brakes fail.
Maybe I'm not old enough, but I'm not seeing how that would work. Even if you lose power assist your breaks should continue to function better then locking up the rear wheels with the E-break. ??
The e-break still engages the same breaks, right? It's not some extra mechanisim is it? I just though it was a physical link to the rear breaks?
So you would class the button-like ones in the dashboard (Like this) as handbrakes? In conversation I would call it a handbrake, because its what we call them here, but technically I think I may call that one a parking brake.
I asked this question because of a conversation with an American over the 4th pedal (or 3rd pedal in this case) layout.
And I've also never understood the e-brake one. Technically you could use this argument against parking brake as well, because it can be used for both emergencies and parking. So I guess handbrake is the best overview. Or is there a system whereby the electronic ones like the link above don't activate unless the car is stationary, in which case it can't be an e-brake. And handbrake isn't right if its a pedal, as case it doesn't make sense - both word-wise and theory-wise.
Massive Anti SUV rant
thank you. Couldn't have said it better myself
Spectre : the reason why I hate these cars is that the people who drive them consider a dirt road to be "offroad". Hell they consider parking on the sidewalk "offroad"...
IMO it's just badge snobbery, woo BMW...
What's everyone's understanding of when/why you'd use it?
BRAKES, not 'breaks'.
Ah, that felt good.
IN automatics I pretty much never use it unless I'm on vacation to a place that has some elevation changes. Use it in case the tranny can't hold/fails to hold the car in place.
extra ground clearance.
Why would you need extra ground clearance when you're not going off-road?