What is my handbrake for ?

[OneForTheRoad]

Thanks for your pointless observation.

I was responding to your confusing & incorrect response below - he made a statement and then asked a question (the question mark at the end of the last sentence means he is asking a question not the sentence (you for some reason answered) with the full stop). You answered the statement not the question. Well done!

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The handbrake won't release if he selects drive and presses the throttle if its a manual release type . The park will though. Because you'd have to either move the lever by the left leg if you put it into park or press up or down if its a steering wheel stalk.

The handbrake will if its the electric type ,not the manual release type.

I know what I mean . Maybe just didn't type it clearly enough ... for that I'm guilty and apologise.... theres a few variables and I dont know if the op has a stalk type gear selector or 1 by his left leg. Or what kind of handbrake he has.

 

[Deleted member 126251]

The handbrake won't release if he selects drive and presses the throttle if its a manual release type . The park will though. Because you'd have to either move the lever by the left leg if you put it into park or press up or down if its a steering wheel stalk.

The handbrake will if its the electric type ,not the manual release type.

I know what I mean . Maybe just didn't type it clearly enough ... for that I'm guilty and apologise.... theres a few variables and I dont know if the op has a stalk type gear selector or 1 by his left leg. Or what kind of handbrake he has.

Fair enough! Both of us advising with incomplete data. Rookie error!

 

[Waitforme]

Seems like there are various versions of handbrakes in auto cars.
My car has the gear selector on the rh stalk with the handbrake pull being a silver pull thing down by my right leg. No idea if it is manual or electric, if I was to hazard a guess I’d say electric.

 

[John]

You can usually hear the electric ones as they operate.

 

[zipdip]

Well on the S and E class cars,if you do not use the electric hand brake,it will after a time seize up and is a fail on the MOT.

 

[Deleted member 6183]

What is my handbrake for ?

For your boyfriend to sit on.

 

[renault12ts]

What is my handbrake for ?

For your boyfriend to sit on.

Oh vicar!!!

 

[kianok]

What is my handbrake for ?

For your boyfriend to sit on.

Sounds like it needs adjusting.

 

[219]

Well on the S and E class cars,if you do not use the electric hand brake,it will after a time seize up and is a fail on the MOT.

That can be true of the mechanical ones too .

 

[Waitforme]

Just read in my handbook that Park applies the electric handbrake.
Maybe the plastic gear jammer is a thing of yesteryear ?

 

[OneForTheRoad]

Just read in my handbook that Park applies the electric handbrake.
Maybe the plastic gear jammer is a thing of yesteryear ?

Have you got 3 pedals at your feet or 2 ?

 

[219]

Just read in my handbook that Park applies the electric handbrake.
Maybe the plastic gear jammer is a thing of yesteryear ?

The parking pawl is not plastic , nor is it a ‘gear jammer’ : it is a mechanical locking device .

 

[219]

Seems like there are various versions of handbrakes in auto cars.
My car has the gear selector on the rh stalk with the handbrake pull being a silver pull thing down by my right leg. No idea if it is manual or electric, if I was to hazard a guess I’d say electric.

‘A silver pull thing down by my right leg’ sounds like an umbrella handbrake ; taking this along with a column mounted gear lever , it sounds as though Mercedes are reverting to the setup of the 1950s and 1960s .

 

[Deleted member 149005]

The parking pawl is not plastic , nor is it a ‘gear jammer’ : it is a mechanical locking device .

Is that one your last century tech or the current models?

 

[219]

Is that one your last century tech or the current models?

The 722.6 5G Tronic was used in numerous models , including W211 , Jaguar , Jeep , Ssangyong , and Maybach up to 2013 .

I very much doubt that many will have replaced such a crucial component with a piece of plastic .

If MB did it , it is a further example of cost cutting .

 

[leef44]

The 722.6 5G Tronic was used in numerous models , including W211 , Jaguar , Jeep , Ssangyong , and Maybach up to 2013 .

I very much doubt that many will have replaced such a crucial component with a piece of plastic .

If MB did it , it is a further example of cost cutting .

And would you put it pass them that they would not cost cut?

 

[leef44]

Just read in my handbook that Park applies the electric handbrake.
Maybe the plastic gear jammer is a thing of yesteryear ?

I have a 2012 SLK55. It also says this and automatically releases when taken out of Park, so I never use the push/pull handle to the right for the handbrake.

In a friend's 2016 GLA220d, it has a stalk gear lever and the same push/pull handle for the handbrake. In her car, you have to manually apply and release the handbrake.

 

[Deleted member 6183]

‘A silver pull thing down by my right leg’ sounds like an umbrella handbrake ; taking this along with a column mounted gear lever , it sounds as though Mercedes are reverting to the setup of the 1950s and 1960s .

In your dreams.

 

[219]

And would you put it pass them that they would not cost cut?

They have done immeasurable damage to their reputation by cutting costs in recent years .

That the pawl , if indeed plastic , in GreenmanSLK’s father's car failed speaks for itself , that an economy has been made unadvisedly ; just as it was when they started using plastic thermostat housings back on the M102 and eventually went back to using metal ones .

With the substandard gearbox pawl , I would expect an updated one , made from hardened steel , to come out as a replacement; failing that it would be simple enough to get a machine shop to turn one up .

Such happenings are why I refuse to buy newer cars and prefer to stick to ones where I can rely on the integrity of their engineering .

 

[leef44]

They have done immeasurable damage to their reputation by cutting costs in recent years .

That the pawl , if indeed plastic , in GreenmanSLK’s father's car failed speaks for itself , that an economy has been made unadvisedly ; just as it was when they started using plastic thermostat housings back on the M102 and eventually went back to using metal ones .

With the substandard gearbox pawl , I would expect an updated one , made from hardened steel , to come out as a replacement; failing that it would be simple enough to get a machine shop to turn one up .

Such happenings are why I refuse to buy newer cars and prefer to stick to ones where I can rely on the integrity of their engineering .

Yes me too, just like white goods, I find myself keeping my old stuff for longer and just getting stuff repaired because you know the parts are engineered to be repairable as opposed to the throw-away society which everything nowadays is manufactured to.

Well, credit to Mercedes if they've changed a plastic housing back to a metal one because it melts. VW family continue to use plastic water impellers which melt - I guess they see this as after-service income stream: save money on parts at manufacture, make more money downstream on repairs, it's a fair business model.