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Keeping it quiet or pulling it up loud? Handbrake problem.

  • 24-07-2018 04:40PM
    #1
    booksale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 436 ✭✭


    My friend told me her instructor asked her to have the pulling sound loud when she pulls up the handbrake. It is completely different from what her husband’s instructor or even mine telling us. But we had the test many years ago.

    So is her instructor correct???


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  • #2
    LeinsterDub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,229 ✭✭✭LeinsterDub


    booksale wrote: »
    My friend told me her instructor asked her to have the pulling sound loud when she pulls up the handbrake. It is completely different from what her husband’s instructor or even mine telling us. But we had the test many years ago.

    So is her instructor correct???
    Never heard of such nonsense. Do people with electronic hand breaks make a loud clicking noise to compensate?


  • #3
    MissShihTzu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,080 ✭✭✭MissShihTzu


    OSI wrote: »
    It's considered best practice to pull it up without depressing the release button as you can be sure it's ratcheting up the teeth. By pulling it up with the button depressed there's a chance of it not engaging the teeth correctly, and can lead to it slipping completely.


    Really?? I've been driving 34 years and have NEVER heard of that...I was always told to depress the button,and pull the handbrake up firmly. Once it's up, then release the button. If done correctly, there should not be a problem with the brake engaging.


    But then I took my test in the UK, where the practice is frowned on in the test...


  • #4
    Wheety
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,498 ✭✭✭Wheety


    I always just pull up the handbrake. Never understood why people press the button to pull it up. If you saw the shape of the 'teeth' you would realise that you just pull it up and press the button to release.


  • #5
    magentis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,237 ✭✭✭magentis


    OSI wrote: »
    It's considered best practice to pull it up without depressing the release button as you can be sure it's ratcheting up the teeth. By pulling it up with the button depressed there's a chance of it not engaging the teeth correctly, and can lead to it slipping completely.

    Best practice according to who?


  • #6
    Wheety
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,498 ✭✭✭Wheety




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  • #7
    Wheety
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,498 ✭✭✭Wheety


    magentis wrote: »
    Best practice according to who?

    Look in your car manual.


  • #8
    andreoilin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 113 ✭✭andreoilin


    My driving instructor years ago told me before I sat my test to press the button before pulling up as the tester would be sick of hearing the noise all day :P


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