How do you apply the Handbrake?

  • I hold the button in

    Votes: 22 68.8%

  • I let it go 'click..click..click'

    Votes: 9 28.1%

  • I don't use the handbrake, I leave it in gear

    Votes: 1 3.1%

  • I don't use the handbrake, I use a brick or similar

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    32
Philthy

Philthy

New Member
Do you hold the button on the handbrake when you apply it or do you just let it go 'Click..click..click'?
 
well at the moment mine is more like click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, need to sort it out :rolleyes:
 
To apply H/Brake I do the click click click thingy.
To release it I push in the button THEN I lift the panel between the seats and twot the drum with me sutcliffe.

Regards WP.
 
I don't need a handbrake 'cos it spends most of its time on axle stands.

Wot have your girlfriends been eating Gareth? And has one of them got a cockatoo coming out of her arse?
 
Any handbrake should be clicked up into place, hence the reason the ratchet clicks.
Most manuals, and certainly the Disco ones, tell you your handbrake is properley adjusted after and on the third click, as that should be the maximum number you can obtain. Any more nad it needs adjusting, any less its over adjusted.
Or in the case of yella fellas, ****ed.
 
yet more bollocks
if you click it up you run the risk of fookin the ratchet and how the fook can anything be over adjusted?? it's either adjusted correctly or incorrectly.
welsh definition of ratchet..... a little bit bigger than mouse ****
 
Correct Slob Any one who has been taught to drive properly gets told to put the button in because it you do not you wear out the handbrake mechanism prematurely. Especially so when you try to let the brake off. b-b
 
the idea of a ratchet on handbrakes is so that when you pull it on the ratchet stops it from coming off. quite a simple theory really, as for wearing the ratchet out, feck me you would have to apply it a good ammount of times to do that, its yet another old wives tale of motoring. ;)
 
Not wearing the ratchet out and the noise it makes are the only reasons for pressing the button I can think of, and niether are a very good argument for pressing the button, but it still irritates the **** out of me when someone doesn't press it.
 
Hey and another thing. When I park up I usually leave the vehicle in gear with the hand brake off so the hand brake cable doesn't stretch prematurely.
 
He He no. But when the kids were small and we were in the car and it was raining, I'd tell them to close there eyes and concentrate on stopping the rain. I'd say "now" as we went under a bridge. They were fooled for years.
 
Had a series 2 with a worn ratchet on the handbrake used a piece of 3x2 under it. Worked great and no need to use the button at all
 
yella disco said:
the idea of a ratchet on handbrakes is so that when you pull it on the ratchet stops it from coming off. quite a simple theory really, as for wearing the ratchet out, feck me you would have to apply it a good ammount of times to do that, its yet another old wives tale of motoring. ;)
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not quite me old mucker, we are dealing with landies here, some that are nearly 50 years old, so a worn rat **** ain't so uncommon.
in my few years of ****ing about with car,trucks,tanks,boats,planes,sex aids,etc i've came across a few rat****s worn damm near flat all beacause people don't take the precaution of pushing the button. granted it don't happen over night. and with the cheaper metals that are being used in cars they are going wear even quicker.
i heard its said that the gaylander has a pvc one.
 
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