For probably the last two months, and maybe once every week or two and probably only when trying to back out of a spot (ie. when going from Park directly to reverse [update: or Drive]) one of my parking brakes has failed to release...the driver's side rear I'm pretty sure.
To be clear, I've got over 59,000 miles on the car and have experience the issue of the parking brake pads sticking to the disks, particularly in the winter, but that is not what this is at all. With the sticking issue once you started driving it would break loose. In the situation I'm having the brake stays locked and drags even while backing up and if I shift to Drive it will stay locked as well and continue to drag. To resolve it I have to stop, put the car back in Park, then can go to either R or D and it is fine.
So, rare/infrequent issue, not brake sticking, actually failing to unlock. I haven't called the SC yet as 1)They're 200+ miles away and it is more of an annoyance than a problem, and I have my next regular service in about a month or so and was planning to have it addressed at that time. Posting here for others who might later experience something like this and to see if anyone else has had the issue and what resolution was arrived at.
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Here's the video:
To be clear, I've got over 59,000 miles on the car and have experience the issue of the parking brake pads sticking to the disks, particularly in the winter, but that is not what this is at all. With the sticking issue once you started driving it would break loose. In the situation I'm having the brake stays locked and drags even while backing up and if I shift to Drive it will stay locked as well and continue to drag. To resolve it I have to stop, put the car back in Park, then can go to either R or D and it is fine.
So, rare/infrequent issue, not brake sticking, actually failing to unlock. I haven't called the SC yet as 1)They're 200+ miles away and it is more of an annoyance than a problem, and I have my next regular service in about a month or so and was planning to have it addressed at that time. Posting here for others who might later experience something like this and to see if anyone else has had the issue and what resolution was arrived at.
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Here's the video:
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