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 ...

In my 50 years of experience as an ASE and General Motors master technician and automotive technology instructor, I’ve found that the parking brake (aka, emergency or hand brakes) is rarely discussed, ...

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 ...

Electronic parking brakes have largely replaced manual handbrake levers across the auto industry, bringing several added ...

The electronic parking brake, or EPB, switch in a 2023 Ford F-150 pickup. Every vehicle on the road is equipped with a parking brake, a hand brake, an e-brake, or an emergency brake. Regardless of the ...

GM has issued a customer satisfaction program regarding a fix that is now available for certain 2023 GMC Sierra 1500 trucks that may have a condition causing the Electronic Parking Brake to fail to ...

Nigel first entered the world of automotive journalism in the mid-80s, working for what was then the “bible” of weekly automotive content - Motoring News. Those were the days of tip-tap typewriters, ...

Manual emergency brakes are becoming less common as many new cars are switching to electric parking brakes. Here's why automakers are making the change.

General Motors has released a Safety Recall for certain 2024-2025 Chevy Blazer EV units due to an issue with the rear parking brake wiring harness. GM program # N252503010 addresses the issue with a ...

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 ...