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  • woodbar
    woodbar replied to the thread EV chat.
    Very many criticisms of electronic parking brakes above and I agree they just overcomplicate the actual mechanics, electronic systems...
  • woodbar
    woodbar replied to the thread EV chat.
    Yes very alarming - the first auto I drove, many, many years ago was a Van Den Plas 3 litre - a friend lent it to me when the diff on my...
  • woodbar
    woodbar replied to the thread EV chat.
    I didn't know his name was Shirley? :laugh: :X3:
  • O
    Owen Smith replied to the thread EV chat.
    Ah yes, electric handbrakes and automatic parking brakes. On the odd occasion I've driven a loan car from the garage with those fitted I...
  • RobH1
    RobH1 replied to the thread EV chat.
    The other way around, shirley?
  • Black Hole
    Black Hole replied to the thread EV chat.
    I was behind a police car on an upward slope at traffic lights, where a hill start would be needed, and the brake lights were on...
  • RobH1
    RobH1 reacted to woodbar's post in the thread EV chat with Like Like.
    I am with you now! I made the same typo just now but managed to edit it after posting :oops:
  • woodbar
    woodbar replied to the thread EV chat.
    I am with you now! I made the same typo just now but managed to edit it after posting :oops:
  • woodbar
    woodbar replied to the thread EV chat.
    Sometimes you can even smell the clutch burning! I had a main dealer drop me into town when I left my car for service. Later in the...
  • woodbar
    woodbar replied to the thread EV chat.
    Possibly, in a traditional torque converter auto (slushbox), it depends how it is designed whether it stays locked in drive mode on...
  • O
    Owen Smith replied to the thread EV chat.
    Unfortunately there's no way to tell if the previous owner has been behaving in this frankly dangerous way (the wear is not the biggest...
  • O
    Owen Smith reacted to Wildebeest's post in the thread EV chat with Like Like.
    Even worse are the ones that sit at junctions or traffic lights on a hill balancing the car on the clutch - you can hear them revving...
  • O
    Owen Smith replied to the thread EV chat.
    I bought a Renault 5 GT Turbo in 1991 with 9k on it, technically ex demo but actually the garage owner's wife's car. I sold it in 2002...
  • O
    Owen Smith replied to the thread EV chat.
    I missed the point completely, I hadn't realised this is about when in motion.
  • RobH1
    RobH1 replied to the thread EV chat.
    Referring to post 112.
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