Re: E-brake failure

[onebad58]

So I pull the boss out of the garage and park it running ( to warm up) and pull my e-brake. I get out to close my garage door and lock it from the inside. As I walk out the door I hear a loud POP! I watch the boss roll into a tree. The e-brake was pulled fully up and lever had fallen completely down. No cable broken.

I searched if there are anybody else with this problems on ANY other 2011 -14 mustangs, and found nothing. Has anybody had the same.w problem here or know of anybody the I could talk to about this matter? I'm very upset and very much want to have this problem looked into.


thank you.

 

[Zquez]

The best way to avoid this happening is ALWAYS leave it in gear. At the track after a session this is preferable as well since your brakes are hot and need to cool. The E-brake can supplement but leaving it in 1st gear is the best way to ensure it never rolls back on you.

 

[unrealford]

I had this happen at work in my 1989 Mustang (I learned a valuable lesson about making sure it's in gear also )
My car rolled out of parking lot, across the front lawn, across 2 lanes of traffic, down a person's yard, curved around back and hit the above ground pool. Causing damage and replacing pool. :
I had no idea until a State Trooper came into work and asked ( DO YOU OWN A BLUE MUSTANG) me sweating nervously, yeah... LOL

 

[VoodooBoss]

Kind of hard to leave it in gear while it's warming up.

Welcome to BMO. I have not heard of this happening before. Good luck with the repairs.

 

[Zquez]

Kind of hard to leave it in gear while it's warming up.

Welcome to BMO. I have not heard of this happening before. Good luck with the repairs.

Doh! I missed that part. ;D

These E-brakes can be finicky. I remember going for a drive and having my right rear brakes start to smoke. I pulled everything apart to see if there was something wrong with the cable or something and everything was as it was supposed to be. I put the car back together without touching anything and drove it again with no issues.

You could always just get some chocks and pretend you're a pilot doing his pre-flight walk around.

 

[unrealford]

Kind of hard to leave it in gear while it's warming up.

Welcome to BMO. I have not heard of this happening before. Good luck with the repairs.

Great point

 

[onebad58]

Thank you. The repair process so far has been a joke. Its been painted three times... they can't get the paint to match. I finaly got my car back a 9 day repair took 45 days.