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Fuckit, less than $20 parts, and very little labor. Works perfectly 👍
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You chucklefuck, it's not even called an emergency brake, it's called a parking brake.
Figured I'd find fools like you.
The parking brake is meant to help hold the vehicle in place when parked on a hill.....
Again, back in the Boomer era, the driver's license test required you to stop the vehicle using the emergency brake. It's called an emergency brake because that's the backup in case the hydraulic (or, before that, purely mechanical) braking system failed. Believe it or not, until relatively recently, people did not have complete faith in their automotive braking systems.
Your comment is just another myth that gets propagated among young people on sites like Reddit, like the one about how windshield wipers turn themselves on when they sense a wreck.
What the fuck are you talking about? Have you ever even tested your parking brake?
I have, because of said emergency situation. Guess what?
One wheel ALWAYS locks up and slides on the road, because parking brake is NOT an emergency brake, and does not implement the antilock brake system.
Wherever the fuck they taught you to drive as if the parking brake is supposedly an emergency brake, well they taught you how to slip and slide your vehicle off the road.
Parking brake is intended to keep the vehicle from rolling downhill, particularly when on a steep hill and/or when towing a trailer. NOT meant as a mainline brake! That shit is fucking dangerous as fuck when used while actually driving!
Whoever the fuck taught you to drive needs to lose their driver's ed license, cuz that's straight up fucked up, even in redneck world.
If your brake booster goes out, you're safer just jamming both feet on the brake pedal with full force. Now on the other hand, if someone cut one of your hydraulic brake lines, well that's a totally different problem. In that case I'd carefully utilize the parking brake, and then go find and beat the ever loving shit out of the person that cut my hydraulic brake line...