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 ...

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

Drivers baby their engines, obsess over tire pressure, and still unknowingly beat up one of […] ...

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 ...

The initial problem was that a damaged harness could cause the parking brake to not work, meaning the vehicle could roll away ...

GM is recalling more than 40,000 units of the 2024 Chevy Blazer EV and 2025 Chevy Blazer EV to address a safety issue with the rear parking brake wiring harness. The harness may be damaged or become ...

More cars are switching from manual parking brakes using a pull-up lever to the electrical type requiring the touch of a button. The proof is in the latest edition of the CarGurus U.K. Manual ...

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 ...