Failed the MOT

[Hangar18]

Mine always had an enormous amount of 'nothing' during the lever's travel and then it would sort of lurch into a locked position. Felt like everything attached to the lever was 'loose'.

Best handbrake's evAr are the ones fitted to the drums of a Ford KA/Fezza they are really grippy.

I don't know if there's something wrong with the handbrake in my 405 - but for periods of time, if I applied it while travelling any faster than 2/3mph it would grab the back of the car to a halt instantly and cause a really loud bang as the rear-end came down- doing it while going backwards caused my girlfriend at the time to scream as we'd set of reversing towards a woman walking a pushchair and it genuinely did feel like the worst outcome had occurred xD! har har har har

[FarmerPug]

the best handbrake ever was the fiat panda it was superb it could do a handbrake turn on anything and it was great fun with the city mode steering on and in the snow, you could steer with one finger and concentrate on the handbrake

[lozz]

Handbrake turn in a panda, thatd be brave,
irember the old pandas,-the ones with the crappy deck chair style seats being very light,
they was easy to get on 2 wheels they was not far off the same weight as a plastic pig,

[FarmerPug]

the panda does look quite high but it handles hand brake turns as good as any other car no more roll than normal, and all great fun.
I like the look of this for some fun in the snow:
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/ ... ?logcode=p