I made a mistake and I drove my 2007 Toyota Corolla LE with parking
brake applied for approx 3-4 miles. ( with speed of 45 max)
I didnt feel anything other than the hold back, but when i was about
to park i could feel a smell around the car.
I am not sure, if i have done some damage?
thanks, Any inputs are appreciated.
-IQ
<ishf…@gmail.com> wrote:
>I made a mistake and I drove my 2007 Toyota Corolla LE with parking
>brake applied for approx 3-4 miles. ( with speed of 45 max)
>I didnt feel anything other than the hold back, but when i was about
>to park i could feel a smell around the car.
>I am not sure, if i have done some damage?
Yes, it’s quite possible.
>thanks, Any inputs are appreciated.
Nobody can really give you any useful input without pulling the rear
wheels and taking a look-see. You’re probably fine. You might not be.
–scott
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<ishf…@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> I made a mistake and I drove my 2007 Toyota Corolla LE with parking
> brake applied for approx 3-4 miles. ( with speed of 45 max)
> I didnt feel anything other than the hold back, but when i was about
> to park i could feel a smell around the car.
> I am not sure, if i have done some damage?
> thanks, Any inputs are appreciated.
Ive done it before. It isnt good for the system, but it isnt necessarily
the kiss of death either.
Sort of like smoking, drinking, and whoring… Some day it will take its
toll. Maybe not today.
Check the rear brakes out if you are really worried about it.
<ishf…@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>I made a mistake and I drove my 2007 Toyota Corolla LE with parking
> brake applied for approx 3-4 miles. ( with speed of 45 max)
> I didnt feel anything other than the hold back, but when i was about
> to park i could feel a smell around the car.
> I am not sure, if i have done some damage?
> thanks, Any inputs are appreciated.
> -IQ
Quite probably nothing is damaged. When on an open road, going around
15 mph, with no one in sight, on dry pavement, apply the emerg. brake
slightly & see if it is working/stopping. Don’t apply hard, as rears will
slide on the pavement & lose control easily–just enough, slightly, until
you can feel it begin to slow. If that seems to brake, then stop the car,
apply emerg. brake fully, and attempt to drive FORWARD. It should hold &
not allow car to move(It WILL most likely move if in reverse.).
An older gentleman, not an instructor, as they were unheard of then,
taught me to drive years ago. One thing he stressed was when parking &
using the emerg. brake to set it TIGHT so nobody, esp. I, could accidentally
take off with it applied & burn up rear brakes and drums. I’m sure this
came from his years as a mechanic and service station manager; nonetheless,
good advice, I’ve found over the years. Taught my wife & 2 daughters the
same. Luck, s
All the parking brake does is force the pads against the drum or rotor.
The most damage you’ve done is worn the pads out and possibly loosened
the cable adjustment.
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Every old wrecks I ever owned before,,, I don’t know if the parking
breaks worked or not.I never tried them out before.
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sdlomi2 wrote:
> <ishf…@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1170108641.371582.297960@p10g2000cwp.googlegroups.com…
>>I made a mistake and I drove my 2007 Toyota Corolla LE with parking
>>brake applied for approx 3-4 miles. ( with speed of 45 max)
>>I didnt feel anything other than the hold back, but when i was about
>>to park i could feel a smell around the car.
>>I am not sure, if i have done some damage?
>>thanks, Any inputs are appreciated.
>>-IQ
> Quite probably nothing is damaged. When on an open road, going around
> 15 mph, with no one in sight, on dry pavement, apply the emerg. brake
> slightly & see if it is working/stopping. Don’t apply hard, as rears will
> slide on the pavement & lose control easily–just enough, slightly, until
> you can feel it begin to slow. If that seems to brake, then stop the car,
> apply emerg. brake fully, and attempt to drive FORWARD. It should hold &
> not allow car to move(It WILL most likely move if in reverse.).
> An older gentleman, not an instructor, as they were unheard of then,
> taught me to drive years ago. One thing he stressed was when parking &
> using the emerg. brake to set it TIGHT so nobody, esp. I, could accidentally
> take off with it applied & burn up rear brakes and drums. I’m sure this
> came from his years as a mechanic and service station manager; nonetheless,
> good advice, I’ve found over the years. Taught my wife & 2 daughters the
> same. Luck, s
I agree with the old timer, but lately I’ve noticed, at least on GM
cars, that you have no control over how tight the e-brake applies
because it has a spring in the mechanism.
Of course, it also has an annoying chime if you do try to drive off with
the e-brake applied. And the darned thing hasn’t worked since the car
was about 6 mos. old anyway.
nate
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<ishf…@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>I made a mistake and I drove my 2007 Toyota Corolla LE with parking
> brake applied for approx 3-4 miles. ( with speed of 45 max)
> I didnt feel anything other than the hold back, but when i was about
> to park i could feel a smell around the car.
> I am not sure, if i have done some damage?
> thanks, Any inputs are appreciated.
> -IQ
Is there not a light on the dash to tell you that the brake
is on?>
Nate Nagel <njna…@flycast.net> wrote in
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> Of course, it also has an annoying chime if you do try to drive off
> with the e-brake applied. And the darned thing hasn’t worked since
> the car was about 6 mos. old anyway.
Well gosh darn.
I wish my old girlfriend’s ’79 Trans-Am Turbo 4.9 had that chime. Would
have saved a major fight the night I put the parking brake on after driving
the car, and then she and her friend went out after that. Can you tell we
never got married?.
–
Tegger
> It should hold & not allow car to move
I’d bet that on most cars that have been in service for a while, the
parking brake’s duties are largely ceremonial. The original poster’s
car being quite new, though, it is probably in proper adjustment (or
at least was before this incident!).
The other big factor, of course, is how hard it was set. Maybe the
car was really laboring to overcome the braking in the rear, and wore
down the brake shoes quite a bit. Maybe not.
Anyway, the only way to tell is to look at the parking brake shoes…
I think all the 2007 Corollas have rear drums, rather the rear discs
found in the bigger, faster, and more expensive items in their product
line nowadays, so the parking brake arrangement is doubtless pretty
old-school: a way to mechanically set and release the regular rear
brake. Any mechanic can quickly and easily remove a brake drum for a
look-see.
Cheers,
–Joe
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> <ishf…@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1170108641.371582.297960@p10g2000cwp.googlegroups.com…
>> I made a mistake and I drove my 2007 Toyota Corolla LE with parking
>> brake applied for approx 3-4 miles. ( with speed of 45 max)
>> I didnt feel anything other than the hold back, but when i was about
>> to park i could feel a smell around the car.
>> I am not sure, if i have done some damage?
>> thanks, Any inputs are appreciated.
>> -IQ
> Quite probably nothing is damaged. When on an open road, going
> around 15 mph, with no one in sight, on dry pavement, apply the
> emerg. brake slightly & see if it is working/stopping. Don’t apply
> hard, as rears will slide on the pavement & lose control easily–just
> enough, slightly, until you can feel it begin to slow. If that seems
> to brake, then stop the car, apply emerg. brake fully, and attempt to
> drive FORWARD. It should hold & not allow car to move(It WILL most
I’ve never encountered a car yet where the handbrake (British for "emergency
brake" or "parking brake"!) has any noticeable effect on slowing down a car
that is already moving, even when applied hard and suddenly. How people ever
lock the rear wheels to do handbrake turns is a mystery to me. That’s even
on a car where the handbrake has recently been adjusted during servicing and
with good pads. Also, first gear on most manual-transmission cars can easily
overcome the handbrake when the car is stationary – the car might be a bit
more sluggish but it will move without any problem. A standard test that
second-hand garages do to check for clutch slippage is to put the handbrake
on and then without your foot on the accelerator lift the clutch gently in
second or third gear: if the car moves, the clutch is OK; if it doesn’t, the
clutch is slipping. With my diesel engined Peugeot, the car will take off in
any gear, with no power applied, even up a steep gradient with the handbrake
on, despite the handbrake being adjusted properly so it will hold the car
from running back.
Handbrakes tend to be used much more with manual transmission because they
are the main means of holding the car, given that there’s no Park
transmission lock. I only put the car in gear if I’m parked on a steep hill,
and then always so that the car will lurch *uphill* rather than downhill if
I try to start the engine without remembering to press the clutch or taking
it out of gear. Lurching down hill (with gravity helping you) into the car
parked behind you is embarrassing and can be expensive.
My car, a 2000 bought in 1999, still chimes away anytime the brake is left
on and the car put in gear.
Roy
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> Nate Nagel <njna…@flycast.net> wrote in
> news:eponrm01c3j@news2.newsguy.com:
>> Of course, it also has an annoying chime if you do try to drive off
>> with the e-brake applied. And the darned thing hasn’t worked since
>> the car was about 6 mos. old anyway.
> Well gosh darn.
> I wish my old girlfriend’s ’79 Trans-Am Turbo 4.9 had that chime. Would
> have saved a major fight the night I put the parking brake on after
> driving
> the car, and then she and her friend went out after that. Can you tell we
> never got married?.
> —
> Tegger