Pete K
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I'll take your word for it.  
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 27th Dec 2017 9:50 am |
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development_cycle
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Thanks all, to clarify, I would never have thought of using it as an emergency brake until reading the replies to this post, I don’t know why, probably just because it was a switch rather than a lever?
Also, I have had issues and it has activated itself hence pulling the fuse, on closer inspection under the driver side rear wheel it could be cable damage as well as the shoes. This was only intended to be temporary and if I can get the parts in time I will do the work this weekend and get it operational again.
I have replaced the rear discs before and therefore have put the epb in service mode and followed the bedding in procedures from bodsys bible. I suspect the reason why you have to be driving between 19 and 29 mph (or something like that) is so that only the epb will be activated at those speeds and not the full system as mentioned above, just putting two and two together.
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| 27th Dec 2017 9:51 am |
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Narpy
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I seem to recall if you pull the big pink fuse you'll also lose cruise control and anti stall feature so if things aren't quite as they should be, you know why.
Normal service is resumed when the fuse is back in. Mods:
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| 27th Dec 2017 11:11 am |
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Gareth
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AFAIK, if below 6mph, the epb switch will use the epb to halt the vehicle. Over 6mph it will activate the main service brakes, with EBA and ABS active, to slow the vehicle to below 6mph then the EPB applies.
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| 27th Dec 2017 11:25 am |
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development_cycle
Member Since: 20 Nov 2013
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Thanks Narpy, didn't know that. Never used or intend to use Cruise Control, scare the  out of me when I tried it one day just to see as I'd never had a car with that before; as for anti stall, never knew it existed, and it can't be that great anyway as I've stalled it a million times 
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| 27th Dec 2017 11:35 am |
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development_cycle
Member Since: 20 Nov 2013
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Gareth wrote:AFAIK, if below 6mph, the epb switch will use the epb to halt the vehicle. Over 6mph it will activate the main service brakes, with EBA and ABS active, to slow the vehicle to below 6mph then the EPB applies.
Gareth, I assume those parameters must be different when you're bedding in new discs or epb shoes then, as you have to drive much faster than that and just pull the button to stop, like 7 or 8 times.
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| 27th Dec 2017 11:37 am |
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Gareth
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Bedding in is different because you have put the car in Bedding in mode. When in bedding in mode the car will use epb only, up to 30 mph, for 10 cycles.
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| 27th Dec 2017 1:12 pm |
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galwaygreen
Member Since: 30 Oct 2011
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the instructor at Solihull LRE pulled the handbrake on doing about 45 mph on loose ground...the car stopped very quick and in a straight line....learned something that day...lots to be learnt at LRE...
IT IS IMPORTANT YOUR PARTNER/PASSENGER KNOWS HOW IT WORKS INCASE YOU HAVE A FUNNY TURN AT THE WHEEL
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| 27th Dec 2017 6:14 pm |
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M3DPO
Member Since: 22 Sep 2010
Location: Notts.
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But......it won't work if you have your foot on the accelerator  so if one should have a "funny turn" make sure one dosn't have a foot on the go faster peddle
The park brake can be held off by holding the operating switch down while the engine is turned off. It can when others can't,
It will when others won't,
It goes where others don't.
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| 27th Dec 2017 8:31 pm |
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markate
Member Since: 17 Sep 2011
Location: England
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It does work with a foot on the accelerator. Trust me having tried it on a test track in a 5.0 litre Range Rover Sport with foot hard down when the park brake was pulled we came to an abrupt stop.
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| 27th Dec 2017 9:08 pm |
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M3DPO
Member Since: 22 Sep 2010
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The hand book must be wrong as it states in it that it dosn't, I certainly think it should, but I've never tried it It can when others can't,
It will when others won't,
It goes where others don't.
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| 27th Dec 2017 9:14 pm |
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development_cycle
Member Since: 20 Nov 2013
Location: Scotland
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M3DPO wrote:The park brake can be held off by holding the operating switch down while the engine is turned off.
Really? Not read that anywhere, and it won’t do anything until you do something to reactivate it? On an automatic?
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| 28th Dec 2017 9:42 am |
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Erea
Member Since: 19 Mar 2012
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No you have to hold it down each time.
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| 28th Dec 2017 11:49 am |
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Pete K
Member Since: 15 Jan 2016
Location: GL
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generally manuals leave the factory programmed to automatically apply the parking brake, I assume when you remove the key ?
automatics do not leave the factory like this. And don't automatically apply the parking brake.
Settings can be changed with IID
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| 28th Dec 2017 11:50 am |
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development_cycle
Member Since: 20 Nov 2013
Location: Scotland
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Erea wrote:No you have to hold it down each time.
Isn't that just called using the parking brake?
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| 28th Dec 2017 11:55 am |
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