KapVu

I'm not sure if something is wrong or not, but when I'm driving and I pull on the handbrake it doesn't lock the front (or is it rear) wheels. It just starts doing a suttle beeping and nothing happens. I can even drive with the handbrake up and nothing will be wrong.

It is supposed to do that?

jaehshim

u "can" drive with handbreak up, and it "will" move to certain amt of speed
that's why there's a beeping sensor for TSX.

aznt1217

Yes it is to notify you that the handbrake is up

KapVu

why isn't it doing what it's supposed to do, locking the wheels when you want to break hard.

xizor

who taught you how to drive? that's not what the parking brake is for at all. It only holds the rear wheels and is meant to keep the car from rolling away when its parked... not to help you brake hard, use the pedal for that

Still Water

That beeping sound is the TSX's way of saying, "hey DUMMY, you left the parking brake on!!!" Next thing you'll be asking about is why your "parking brake" doesn't work any more. Gee, I wonder why that is?? The only time you might use your PB when the car is moving is when there's a cop behind you and you want to slow down a bit without showing him your brake lights or when driving a MT car, parked on a hill going into 1st gear.

Jazzyguy

Funniest Thread I have read to date.

PWPTSX

weird...........you don't see the bright "!!BRAKE!!" light on your MID when u drive with it on??

yuhoo22

why are you pulling the hand brake and driving? do you not know what it is for?

There is another pedal to the left of the gas pedal.....that one is the brake!

Ellas9

I'm not sure how often you pull the PB, but you may be making an early visit to change your rear pads and potentialy rotors. If you feel no resistance when you apply it when you park (i.e you get that roll) then get the cable adjusted at the dealer.

EuRTSX

Reading this gives me a headache.

tony4311

....wow

supraken

iTrader: (1)

Well, I dunno, but the hand brake is not only for parking brakes, it also serves as an emergency brake (hence the term emergency hand brake), so I guess I can kinda understand why he was trying to test that....

and oh btw, if you see how tiny those little pieces of things that push onto the rear rotors are (the hand brake "pads"), you'll understand why they don't "brake hard"....

supraken

iTrader: (1)

Correction, the TSX doesn't use this separate drum brake (for hand brake) on the rear hubs of the rear wheels like some of of other 4 wheel disc brake cars.... It is merely a cable/lever that presses the piston of the disc brake..

So essentially, this tells you how much force you have to apply to stop the car if it wasn't for power/hydralic brakes...

tony4311

It's ONLY for parking and nothing else. That's why it's called a parking brake. People kept trying to use them as emergency brakes but they're not made to do that and they don't have nearly enough bower to do anything at all. That's why they're called parking brakes now so people stop trying to use them for anything but parking.

kyotousa

this dude watched too many drift videos lol

PWPTSX

From Wikipedia:

e-brake:
"An emergency brake is a separate brake system in a vehicle for use in case of failure of the regular (hydraulic or air) brakes and commonly used as a parking brake in automobiles. Also called hand brake, many people shorten emergency and call the devices e-brakes."

so don't use it while driving, unless your braking system really had a failure..........lol

btw people use it to drift on snow (b/c there aren't much friction between and snow and your tire, so it will not harm your e-brake as much) don't use it on dry surface!!!

TSX7

I can lock up the rear wheels using the parking brake on wet pavement but not on dry pavement. Like PWPTSX said, you should be able to stop the car just using the parking brake.

Nubasaurs

i think you should get another car instead of a tsx...i don't think it's fit for being killed by a HB. go with an american car and mess with the HB on that.