Lessons Learned the Hard Way About Parking Brake Failure offers practical guidance for car owners who want to reduce risk and ...

The parking brake, or emergency brake, is usually attached to a car’s rear wheels. On vehicles with rear drum brakes, the parking brake is usually attached with cables to the rear brakes, as shown in ...

The panic trickled from my eyeballs to my toes when I answered my dad’s phone call at 1 a.m. on that Saturday night. I was one beer deep into my roommate’s 21st birthday celebration at a bar in Mizzou ...

When the car is sluggish, the wheels are difficult to roll, the wheel rims are unusually hot or burning, the brake pedal ...

Manual gear sticks and chunky automatic gear selectors aren’t the only controls to have been replaced in a lot of modern cars by tiny switches – the humble handbrake made that transition quite some ...

These instructions for adjusting your parking brake work only if you have drum brakes on your rear wheels. If you have a manual transmission, you may have a transmission-type parking brake, which ...