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 ...

My “wonderful” mother has expanded her range of helpful advice-giving to the manner in which I park my car on my steeply sloped driveway. She was deeply concerned about the order in which I engage ...

In my 50 years of experience as an ASE and General Motors master technician and automotive technology instructor, I’ve found ...

Is it possible to drive with a parking brake on? I was driving, and then all of a sudden my brakes failed (I was going about 50 mph). I swerved off the road and went into a ditch. If I had ...

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 ...