Handbrake how many clicks

RadX 69, Moderator August 14, Friendstar 5, Supercharged August 14, Wah Lau. Such things also must ask? Pocus 13, Turbocharged August 14, edited. Edited August 14, by Pocus. Sony MX5NC2 My car had 3 clicks from day one and two years on, still at 3 clicks. Don't rely on clicks for brake functionality, make sure the car does not move as intended!!! Deckbuild 3, Hondafit 8. Clutched August 14, Leijasper Linlaopei August 14, Calvin79 I think you need to pull until cannot click then ok liao Create an account or sign in to comment You need to be a member in order to leave a comment Create an account Sign up for a new account in our community.

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How many km your full tank gives you? Handbrake many clicks. Forum Shortcuts General Car Discussion. Tips and Resources. Japanese Talk. I can see why it would be important on a learner car, as you have to apply the stick brake before and after just about every action you do, that's why learner cars get stationary and in the way all the time. I never let the ratchet "click". To do so shows a complete lack of finesse and mechanical sympathy.

One of the several reasons I dislike foot operated parking brakes such as in my brother's new XC Don't get me started on automatic gearbox drivers who slam the car in to 'P' and with the body still lurching to and fro from the dead stop climb out without even a thought of putting the parking brake on.

The day after I took my driving test in , the handbrake release button on Dad's Volvo DL which I used for the test popped out and shot in to the passenger footwell under spring compression! The cause was simply that the button had unscrewed - so easily fixed - but I guess if it had happened 24 hours before during the test I would have been unable to complete it due to an unroadworthy vehicle. Sat 1 Jul Hand brake clicks - L'escargot. Focus it explicitly states in the handbooks that you should not press the button in when engaging the handbrake.

What page is it on? I'm a non-clicker. The only reason I can think of for clicking is that if you don't click you might just possibly relax the pull on lever slightly before you release the button and this might effectively give you one less click than if you had clicked. Well, take a bow then. Inevitably someone here was going to mention that ancient device and you have won that accolade!

Fri 30 Jun Hand brake clicks - L'escargot. I cringe when I see the patches they've rubbed off the tarmac. I used to live on a narrow road and I knew exactly which of my neighbours turned the wheel with the car stationary and which didn't from the evidence on the tarmac outside their drive.

Fri 30 Jun Hand brake clicks - mike hannon. I would have thought it is easy enough to judge whether adjustment is needed by how far the lever moves, rather than bother counting clicks. My father used to drive a Leyland Octopus eight-wheeler in the late s, with Westinghouse air brakes and a handbrake that needed four or five pulls against a very loud ratchet to get it fully on.

You could hear it for hundreds of yards. It did, however, have a very effective 'fly off' device so it released like a sports car! Fri 30 Jun Hand brake clicks - scc.

I too was taught to always pull up the handbrake with the button pressed. However I took delivery of a new X type this year and it specifically says not to do this in the instruction manual, so I'm now trying to re-educate my left hand with varying success.

Fri 30 Jun Hand brake clicks - robcars. I have to ask why it says specifically not to? Can't think of any reason where it would be better to click it on rather than pull it on and release button to finish.

I can understand why people do it either way, I'm a non clicker personally, but really don't understand the instruction to do it! Fri 30 Jun Hand brake clicks - Civic8. As my post before,but its not a failure on its own,I asked a mate that is a driving instructor and he said in order to fail the test other parts of test have to fail as well. TBH, I didnt know it could be a failure,poss because it was never mentioned and also its not a failure on its own,so I dont see the problem unless other fail points occur during the test -- Steve Reply Report as offensive Link.

Sat 1 Jul Hand brake clicks - Robin Reliant. I hate the sound of a clicking handbrake and in common with nearly all instructors i used to teach pupils to depress the button. Exceptions were when someone had been taking extensive lessons with a friend or family member and had got so into the habit of clicking that it was a waste of time trying to cure it.

You would not fail a test for clicking the handbrake, but if the examiner is on a bad day it might just be the final irritation that makes him turn an otherwise marginal fault into a fail. Sat 1 Jul Hand brake clicks - scc. However I post on a jaguar forum so will ask the question there and report back tomorrow if any explanations are forthcoming. Just thought I'd do a double check and had a look at the on-line manual which states: "do not press the release button while pulling the lever up" There is no explanation as to why not so as per previous post I'll wait and see if any other jag drivers have a rational explanation.

Sat 1 Jul Hand brake clicks - trancer. In the 8 months I have owned my d I have adjusted the handbrake cable at least 3 times. Once was a rear disc off, proper adjustment lots of brake shoe left and at least another 2 seperate times from inside the car under the handbrake lever.

If I pull up on the lever past the usual 2 click position due to extra weight in the car or a particularly steep slope it will never hold again with 2 clicks. Sat 1 Jul Hand brake clicks - local yokel. SWMBO has no mechanical sympathy, and is a clicker.

If I'd known I might not have married her. I was taught not to click in by my instructor, and I've never done it since. I also keep my foot on the brake pedal while lifting the handbrake, to ensure a good bite by the HB. I was taught not to click in by my instructor I'm a non-clicker, but nevertheless and notwithstanding I can't help wondering who tells the instructors what to tell their pupils.

In other words who is the definitive authority on whether you should click or not? Sat 1 Jul Hand brake clicks - piggy. About twenty years ago I bought a car from a woman owner; six months later i had to replace the rachet. Somehow I think if a survey was held, it would show a majority of women are clickers.

Sat 1 Jul Hand brake clicks - Schuey. As mentioned, the continual use of the handbrake without depressing the button, will lead to the ratchet mechanism to wear so much more rapidly.

It is like a chain on a bike, eventually the edges of the sprocket teeth become mis-shapen and worn. Of course, for those whom change their car for a new one every few years do not need to concern themselves, but would seem to be poor practice and somewhat a carefree attitude and unsympathetic to the vehicle.

The vast majority of people should not need to listen to the number of clicks on the handbrake before they know it is on sufficiently. One can feel when the handbrake engages enough, to brake the wheels. But of course one does put the car in gear also! It is about the feel of the car, e. I believe those are the ones that really know about cars and have a interest in them and maintain them. Sat 1 Jul Hand brake clicks - Lud.

I was not taught to press the button when applying the handbrake. The teeth on the ratchet are angled so that the pawl slips over them easily. It does no harm whatsoever to allow the ratchet to click during application, and the number of clicks tells the driver whether any adjustment is needed.

It is not an indication of mechanical sympathy to apply the handbrake silently. It betrays an obsessive personality. So there. Sat 1 Jul Hand brake clicks - bell boy. Sat 1 Jul Hand brake clicks - Altea Ego. Thanks om. But I didn't really want to have the last word, just to say something different from virtually everyone else on this extremely trivial subject.

I don't understand TVM's post at all. Why do I need to wash my hands again, and why all the commas? So you were hinting that it takes one to know one, TVM? No doubt you are right. But why the row of commas? I have keyboards tourettes syndrome Getting back to handbrakes. To the guy who says that if he pulls harder then two clicks he then has to adjust the cable, I say you have a fault somewhere else because this is not normal or desirable mechanical behaviour.

To the poster who says he puts his foot on the foot brake first then pulls up the handbrake, yes this is the advised behaviour on later VW's that are well known for rolling away when parked.

Now to clicking on the ratchet. My father never did it, nor his father before him ever did it.. I took my car test some months after the RN first sent me solo.

Advanced driving techniques suggest depressing the release button on the handbrake to avoid wear on the ratchet. I doubt whether this is appropriate advice on a modern car, I found out today that I do indeed press the button, guess it's the effect of having some mechanical sympathy. Wouldn't be in my top ten of questions to a seller when I was buiying a second hand car. Sat 1 Jul Hand brake clicks - Dynamic Dave.

The rachet on my Vectra handbrake is so quiet anyway, it's hardly noticable if you don't press the button before lifting up the lever. My driving instructor back in told me the prefered method is to press the button as it doesn't annoy the examiner quite so much. Sat 1 Jul Hand brake clicks - Aprilia. I used to do some IAM Observing until about a year or so ago, when I packed it in because it was too time consuming.

Anyway, one of the things the IAM is keen on is that drivers should apply the handbrake anytime the car is stationary for more than a few seconds - the reasons for this are obvious. Thus the typical handbrake is not applied very frequenty. I suspect that if drivers applied the handbrake as often as they should then the ratchet WOULD wear out if you didn't push the button. I always have pushed the button - apart from when counting the clicks during a service. To the chap with the BMW D. You have a fault with your rear brake mechanism.

Sun 2 Jul Hand brake clicks - Lud. But did the IAM have a policy on button pressing, Aprilia? I've never come across a car with a worn-out ratchet, and I've driven a fair number of rough and neglected examples. But I did once drive someone's new Rover and applied the handbrake too vigorously, so that the cable stretched or something flexed, the lever came up too far and the button with its spring and so on popped out. It was possible to release the brake, but not to reassemble the device with one hand while driving up Kensington Gore.

A very embarrassing occasion. Sun 2 Jul Hand brake clicks - L'escargot. In the days before handbrake levers were designed to have a significant amount of movement before reaching the first click, if it only had two clicks travel then the brakes were liable to drag. I used to specify 5 clicks travel when having my car serviced. How long have cars had the current level of click-free movement? It might be extremely trivial to you but to us confirmed anti-clickers Sun 2 Jul Hand brake clicks - oldgit.

What are these 'clicks'. Never heard them in my cars. Unless you mean creaking from the plethora of plastics used in modern day cars. Sun 2 Jul Hand brake clicks - bell boy. Sun 2 Jul Hand brake clicks - trancer. I am the guy or chap never been called that before 8- with the d who has to constantly adjust the handbrake. The car does have a fault Handbrake shoes still have lots of material, they aren't glazed and I have cleaned them out at least once since I got the car in Nov.

I will concede that I am a bit obsessive about wanting the handbrake to hold the car with only 2 clicks on the rachet, but if the car holds just fine on my sloped driveway with 2 clicks on one day then needs 3 or 4 clicks the following week, then I am sure you will understand my need to "rectify" it.

Now that I have admitted to a handbrake obsession I may as well come completely clean. When releasing the handbrake I use my index finger to push in the button, not my thumb!!!. Sun 2 Jul Hand brake clicks - none.

The lever travel was acceptable, every visible part seemed to be in good working order and yet the handbrake didn't work. It turned out that the rear calipers depended upon full handbrake travel to operate the pads when applying the handbrake. If the cable was to tight, it just wouldn't move the pads far enough to grip the discs. The simple answer was to slacken the cable off allowing the caliper to work as designed. And there were too many clicks to bother counting.

The BMW handbrake uses a seperate mechanism from the rear brake caliper, its essentially a drum brake within the rear disc. When everything is adjusted the rear brake holds nicely and one could even do a nice degree handbrake turn if the McDonalds audience wanted it. Such use would mean that the cable would slacken again requiring yet another adjustment therefore I don't do handbrake turns.

Nothing to do with wearing flats on your expensive tyres and attracting the unwelcome attention of plod waiting nearby to control the burger-crazed McDonald's clientele when they come out, trancer?

Sun 2 Jul Hand brake clicks - Aprilia. I've not had this on any BMW's that I've had my hands on. Possibly they switched parts supplier for a while and had some problems. Might be worth trying ECP for a replacement cable - they are easy to replace. Might well solve your problem. Mon 3 Jul Hand brake clicks - Pete M. I think this is one of those wonderful English folk-tales that persist years after they are relevant.

Perhaps the ratchet in a Morris 10 was known to be weak, and the word went round how to preserve it. Now, more than 70 years later the myth is still around, shrouded in such terms as 'mechanical sympathy' and so on. I think it's like the traditional use in England of a plastic washing up bowl for washing dishes in a perfectly good kitchen sink.

Now we haven't been washing the children or ourselves or our clothes in the kitchen sink for several decades now, but when I lived in England, the locals were horrified that I just washed the dishes in the sink without a bowl. They couldn't tell me exactly why, but only that their mother had warned them of awful consequences if they didn't do it. Isn't it time to put some of these old wives tales out to pasture?

Mon 3 Jul Hand brake clicks - Lud. Couldn't have put it better myself Pete M. Mon 3 Jul Hand brake clicks - tr7v8. To be honest everyone is calling it a handbrake, I believe the correct term is parking brake. If it's dual circuit brakes which all cars are now post about then it's not a secondary braking mechanisim it's a parking brake, hence lower efficiency required on the MOT.

But that's endemic with todays drivers. Mechanical sympathy be damned. If you think it's an annoying sound, well and good. I like it myself. If pressing the button serves any at all purpose I'm still unclear why a major manufacturer namely Ford should be so unsypathetic to their product.

The CMAX handbook stated categorically that you should not press the button when applying the parking brake and my recollection is that the Focus handbook said the same. I've always assumed that this was a safety issue to ensure that the pawl was engaged in the ratchet and the brake securely locked on - I guess I will stick with the advice of the people who made the car.

Are any other possible mythical procedures that have persisted down the years? Mon 3 Jul Hand brake clicks - bell boy. Most member of the PU clan are suckers for some wreck or other, me not least in my choice of Landies I still do this occasionaly when starting my latest cars.

Is there any one out there still double de-clutching? Yes - alive and well, not always but sometimes Does it have any benefit on a a car with modern gearbox or are we talking classic cars?

It's another advanced driving thing, alleged to reduce gearbox wear but presumably at the cost of clutch wear, the landie needs it sometimes to persuade her to change gear Tue 4 Jul Hand brake clicks - Lud. If the synchromesh is damaged or weak on one or more gears double-declutching will enable silent changes to be made and prevent further damage, at the expense of the clutch mechanism.