Same here.
Why put on your seat belt in the driveway testing ?
But makes me think, what if your seat belt sensor fails.
Next time you put on the brake, and it won't release because it thinks you didn't put on your seat belt yet. You'ld be forced to have your car towed.
I have been driving cars with stick on and off and gotten into habit of using the hand brake. I prefer the electronic brake better. The cable doesn't stretch and less chance of driving with the brake on.
fyi for everyone, the Honda HR-V manuals are also online (downloadable PDF but not working for me, or bite size web pages with smaller PDF downloads as well). For example here is the page for the parking brake:
No, that is only a requirement to automatically release the parking brake. Seatbelt is not required to release manually. Try it out. I have.
Directly from the manual:
■ To release manually
1. Depress the brake pedal.
2. Press the electric parking brake switch.
- The electric parking brake indicator goes off.
To release automatically
Use the accelerator pedal to release the brake when you are starting the vehicle facing uphill, or in a traffic jam.
Depressing the accelerator pedal releases the parking brake.
Depressing the accelerator pedal while releasing the clutch pedal releases the
parking brake.
You can release the parking brake automatically when:
• You are wearing the driver’s seat belt.
• The engine is running.
• The transmission is not in (P or (N.
• The transmission is not in (N.
Apologies for resurrecting an old thread, but does the park brake activate if pulled whilst the car is driving at normal highway road speeds? Just wondering if a passenger pulled it up by mistake, or a poor joke, whether it would suddenly have the car braking/losing control and possibly causing an accident.
Apologies for resurrecting an old thread, but does the park brake activate if pulled whilst the car is driving at normal highway road speeds? Just wondering if a passenger pulled it up by mistake, or a poor joke, whether it would suddenly have the car braking/losing control and possibly causing an accident.
I kind of thought that was why modern vehicles called them "Parking Brakes" instead of "Emergency Brakes", to remind people to use them for parking rather then in emergencies (to avoid damage from using them for sudden, abrupt stops). That being said, I owe several words of thanks to a late 90's Civic with a hand brake that got me out of more then one near disaster in the winter.
I've always put the parking brake on, turned off the engine and then removed my foot from the brake pedal. I was lead to believe that it saved your transmission the slight jarring of the car rocking back and forth as it settled after you've released the brake pedal. Doesn't seem like a lot of movement, but factor in the number of times it happens over the life of the vehicle and you can see how that could start grinding gear teeth.
I noticed the brake comes on when I start to roll back on a hill without the brake hold on. It works on steeper hills. I have a manual so I don't know if it will work with a auto.
I found out the hard way recently that if I'm parked in the garage with a dead battery, I can't get out. I can put the trans in neutral using the shifter release hole and a key, but the parking brake will not release without electricity for the motor. In this case, fly by wire don't cut it.
I actually like the reliability and security of the electric brake hold, every cable brake I've had failed at least once and took up more room up front.
I believe there is a maintenance mode you can put the brakes in using an Allen wrench, but would require removing the rear wheels and backing the brake out