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 ...

If you have a drum-style parking brake, it’s likely that the lever that actuates the brake — the one that the cable pulls on ...

Modern vehicles tend to come equipped with more technologically advanced safety features than some owners are even aware of. While many of those systems can be pricey to repair when they malfunction, ...

I have a 2022 Subaru Outback, the replacement for my previous 18-year-old Subaru Forester. Now I am mostly comfortable with all the new technology in the car, but what still makes me a little ...

Ford is recalling more than 870,000 F-150 pickup trucks from the 2021 through 2023 model years because their electronic parking brakes could activate while the vehicle is in motion, which could cause ...

IB of New Milton referred to electric handbrakes. They may be more efficient as a ‘parking brake’ but, at a stroke, car manufacturers are disposing of a vital handbrake function: its use as an ...

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 ...