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Some units of the 2024 and 2025 Chevy Blazer EV are subject to a new recall addressing the rear parking brake wiring harness that's at risk of corrosion.
Your car definitely has a parking brake that's meant to keep it from moving when you don't want it to, but do you know how the parking brake actually works?
Some heavy trucks are ditching traditional airbrake knobs for electronic switches. Learn how this enhances safety, simplifies systems, and changes the driver experience.
It boils down to a part supplied by Bendix called the "Intellipark Valve Module," an electronically controlled parking brake system not too dissimilar from what road vehicles use today.
Bendix said diagnosing the leak begins by removing all delivery lines from the Service Relay or Traction Control valve and checking to see which—if any—is exhausting air. Then, with the vehicle wheels ...
In this ancient system if you sprung a brake fluid leak all the fluid quickly depleted itself resulting in no brake action whatsoever. In this case a manual emergency brake was better than nothing.
More than nine in ten new motors are now equipped with electronic parking brakes, according to market analysis. A video last week showed the perils of failing to activate these when stopping.
US investigators have determined that the pilots of a Cessna Citation 560 XLS+ failed to release the aircraft’s parking-brake before it overran the runway on take-off, pitching rapidly up before ...
Ford has recalled more than 870,000 of its full-sized F-150 trucks because the electronic parking brake could engage unexpectedly at any time, including while the vehicle is being driven. That ...
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Ford is recalling more than 870,000 F-150 vehicles due to a parking brake issue, according to documents filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).