Nope, never heard of that before and I've had a couple of BXs and my bro's had a few Xantias. Anyway I thought Passats were the self-releasing handbrake experts
I'm with the guy who's shocked no-one else sticks their cars in gear on hills - common sense surely? In San Francisco you have to park with the wheels turned towards the kerb so if the car starts rolling it can't roll off down the hill.
I never had the problem with the handbrake on either of my 2 Xantias but we always knew about it and always put it in gear.
My local vicar had a K reg 72 Xantia which rolled down his driveway into the garden.
Mondeos had a fault with the handbrake levers slipping off the ratchets several years ago, I think there was a case of a woman being killed by the car rolling forward as she walked in front of it, something like that anyway.
I've seen several Vauxhall Cavaliers let go of the handbrake due to corroded cables, several Corsas and old type Minis.
Sorry to pick you up on it, I'm just the same Especially now I'm "out of the loop", so many times people come on here and say their car is "V reg" and I think is that 1979 or 1980?
I've been off googling Passat handbrake failures A litany of cars rolling off into things or becoming immobile due to the EPB's failure to disengage, with thousands of unhappy owners and VW paying out for all, part or none of the repairs. Honest John reckons 1 in 4 cars have "issues".
I always park in reverse when facing down hill since my old astras handbrake gave out with my 6 month old forst born in the car and wife outside... It started moving the wifes instincts kicked in and she tried getting in... If it wasn't for the o/s/f of the car hitting my house she'd have been crushed between the door and the door pillar and i'd be making a life insurance claim.
Last Sunday i parked outside the house and 20 mins later noticed the car jerking forward so jumped in and the handbrake was on 2 clicks (it don't hold on 2 more like 5).... Not sure what had happened there but if it wern't in reverse it would have hit the wall at the bottom of my street.
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My parking spot is on a hill, and a hole developed, and i've never repaired it, and just pop the N/S rear wheel into it when parking up, as back up.
Otherwise when parking on a hill, I also turn my wheel in towards the kerb
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A litany of cars rolling off into things or becoming immobile due to the EPB's failure to disengage, with thousands of unhappy owners and VW paying out for all, part or none of the repairs. Honest John reckons 1 in 4 cars have "issues".
