Parking brake doesn't always hold

[Mike SOS]

I do have one small fault with the car. The parking brake does not always hold where I have to apply the foot brake. So any suggestion to fix the problem?

 

[Mark Holmes]

Yes make sure the foot brake is fully depressed

 

[mj224]

I have had a recent problem with the parking brake. On coming to a halt at traffic lights, the parking brake is applied with the foot break pressure, and the parking break light come on the dashboard. Now twice in two days, this has suddenly released for not obvious reason, and twice I have managed to use the foot brake to stop the car moving forwards. And thus twice avoided collision with the car in front.

I swear I have not touched anything with feet or hands. A bit worrying. I now hover my foot over the foot break just in case...

Me or the car???????????/

 

[Rattly]

Is the auto braking active?

 

[mj224]

Yes, as said the green parking brake lights up on the dashboard.

Did not happen today...

 

[Rattly]

Yes, as said the green parking brake lights up on the dashboard.

Did not happen today...

Isn’t the green light auto hold and red light parking brake?

 

[mj224]

OK you may be right. But it has a P in it, assume its a parking brake, but maybe wrong..Either way, it seems to have released unexpectedly, and I am sure I have not caused it to do so, knowingly anyway.I shall keep a tab on it and report back...

 

[Rattly]

I‘ve just tried it on mine and it doesn’t take much of a touch on the throttle for it to release!

 

[Chrispydoc]

My brakes frequently "stick on' if I park the car in the garage after i've washed it...they must 'rust on'....not just on the MG.
I suppose I ought to take it around the block and warm up the brakes a little...before I park it up.......

 

[Rattly]

My brakes frequently "stick on' if I park the car in the garage after i've washed it...they must 'rust on'....not just on the MG.
I suppose I ought to take it around the block and warm up the brakes a little...before I park it up.......

All the cars I had have done that I don’t think it can be avoided

 

[Mgzs ev]

Ik heb onlangs een probleem gehad met de parkeerrem. Bij stilstand bij verkeerslichten wordt de parkeerrem aangetrokken met de voetremdruk en gaat het parkeerremlicht op het dashboard branden. Nu twee keer in twee dagen is dit plotseling losgelaten zonder voor de hand liggende reden, en twee keer ben ik erin geslaagd om de voetrem te gebruiken om de auto te stoppen die vooruit rijdt. En zo twee keer een aanrijding met de voorligger voorkomen.

Ik zweer dat ik niets met voeten of handen heb aangeraakt. Een beetje verontrustend. Ik zweef nu mijn voet over de voetbreuk voor het geval ...

Ik of de auto ??????????? /

TTheb

I have had a recent problem with the parking brake. On coming to a halt at traffic lights, the parking brake is applied with the foot break pressure, and the parking break light come on the dashboard. Now twice in two days, this has suddenly released for not obvious reason, and twice I have managed to use the foot brake to stop the car moving forwards. And thus twice avoided collision with the car in front.

I swear I have not touched anything with feet or hands. A bit worrying. I now hover my foot over the foot break just in case...

Me or the car???????????/

Have you tried to use the other button? (Automatic park break)

 

[mj224]

Yes that's on...

 

[Kithmo]

All the cars I had have done that I don’t think it can be avoided

It can if you use waterless wash stuff

 

[Exdro]

TTheb

Have you tried to use the other button? (Automatic park break)

I had this. Use the parking brake labelled “A”. Its use is explained in the manual.