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Silverghost · 09-15-2009, 06:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SSOOCH

Make sure you push in the foot brake while pulling up the parking brake..

Why? The parking brake assembly is totaly seperate from the caliper, it is a drum brake assembly which applies pressure to an inside drum, which is part of the disk rotor.

when it comes time to change your rotors out, Try and pull your rotors off with the parking brake applied, then watch them fall off when you release the parking brake

HDDAN · 09-15-2009, 07:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by StoutFiles

Why is it there again? It seems to do nothing...fully up and if I engage the clutch on a hill it's non-existent...I'm rolling with it up. I've drove once with it up...only realized it was up when the car said something to me. This is in comparison to the Cobalt's parking brake which is a beast; I don't go anywhere when it's up.

The only parking brake so far in this car is the transmission. If you're going to make the parking brake the biggest brake in the history of cars, so big that it constantly annoys the passenger when I put it down before leaving, make it at least work.

Mine works fine. It is not there to hold the car in positition, it is there to ease the job of the transmission. A manual should be parked in gear, not in nuetral. It is used to keep the automatics from torque locking on hills. Sometimes an automatic parked on a hill will roll into a locked condition where it will not be able to be shifted out of park without having someone nudge the car to release the pressure on the gears. The proper way to use this is to engage the parking brake and then put the car into Park. When starting out, you should put the car into gear and then release the parking brake. Never rely on it to hold the car on a hill with the car in nuetral.

fastball · 09-15-2009, 07:24 AM

Sounds like the parking brake mechanism needs to be adjusted. Take it back to the dealer - it should fully engage with the handle only about half way up. It should be very tight at that point - in neutral on a hill the car should go nowhere.

Most cars have tension adjustment screws/bolts under the center arm rest for this, and they should be able to adjust the tension to each wheel individually. The proper way to do it is to find the tension adjustment bolts, jack the rear of the car up, pull the parking brake handle up about half way, and spin the rear wheels individually by hand, and tighten the tension bolts untill the very point the wheels no longer spin (and do not tighten the bolts after that point).

MSG' · 09-15-2009, 08:31 AM

mine works fine

levi1922 · 09-15-2009, 09:33 AM

warranty work.

on my fourth gen you have to pull it twice before it engages

SicSix6 · 09-15-2009, 09:52 AM

Mine works fine. Holds steady. Um, did you contact the dealer to have it checked/fixed? You know you have a warranty that covers stuff like this.

LSP2010 · 09-15-2009, 09:57 AM

mines does that to roll back so i have to pull it hard for it not to move i didnt know people was havin this problem also

v6sonoma · 09-15-2009, 10:28 AM

take it to the dealer for adjustment their will be cake!

DDustiNN · 09-15-2009, 10:48 AM

"I rent a lot of cars, but I don't always know everything about them. So a lot of times, I drive for like ten miles with the emergency brake on. That doesn't say a lot for me, but it really doesn't say a lot for the emergency brake. It's really not an emergency brake, it's an emergency 'make the car smell funny' lever."

- Mitch Hedberg

Mason44 · 09-15-2009, 10:56 AM

Sounds like someone needs it to take it to the dealer ship and have them fix it.

mike25 · 09-15-2009, 10:57 AM

Have them readjust and tighten the lines

coolman · 09-15-2009, 11:03 AM

Go down the road about 30 and give a good hard rip and see what it does.

I really hate those no good rotten liying parking brakes.

chrisinlittlerock · 09-15-2009, 11:04 AM

Mine works great,

SleepWarz · 09-15-2009, 11:04 AM

I always though cake was a lie.

09-15-2009, 09:33 AM	#19
levi1922 Drives: 2LT RS CGM Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Texas Posts: 1,378	warranty work. on my fourth gen you have to pull it twice before it engages __________________

09-15-2009, 09:52 AM	#20
SicSix6 The Demon Photographer Drives: 2010 1SS IOM Camaro Join Date: May 2009 Location: Bristow, VA Posts: 752 View My Garage	Mine works fine. Holds steady. Um, did you contact the dealer to have it checked/fixed? You know you have a warranty that covers stuff like this. __________________ 1SS IOM LS3, GM 4-pack guages, SLP SS Front Emblem, Roto-Fab CAI, Solo Performance Mach X Exhaust, Barton Industries Short Throw Shifter

09-15-2009, 09:57 AM	#21
LSP2010 IM A GURL Drives: 2010/2SS Join Date: May 2009 Location: Killeen,TX Posts: 640	mines does that to roll back so i have to pull it hard for it not to move i didnt know people was havin this problem also __________________ 1100, Preliminary order accepted - 13oct08 2000, Order accepted by GM ----- n/a 3000, Order acc. by P.R---------- n/a 3100, Order available to sequence- n/a 3300, Order sch. for production--- 21may09 3400, Order broadcast------------ 28may09 3800, Order produced ------------ 2jun09(2G1FT1EW8A9114199) 4000, Available to ship 4200, Shipped--------------------9june09 *ITS HERE 18JUNE09*

09-15-2009, 10:28 AM	#22
v6sonoma Drives: 2010 SS RS Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Providence, RI Posts: 8,108 View My Garage	take it to the dealer for adjustment their will be cake! __________________ Mods: BBK Intake, BBK LT's and High Flow Cats, Corsa Cat-back exhaust, Hurst short throw shifter, SLP skip-shift eliminator. 7/1/09 Placed order for IOM/IO int/ SS/RS 6M 9/26/09 Took delivery!

09-15-2009, 10:57 AM	#25
mike25 Drives: 2012 Camaro 2SS/RS Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Dubba V Posts: 2,869	Have them readjust and tighten the lines __________________ 2LT/RS M6 CGM VIN#53104 SOLD 2012 Black 2SS/RS w/ Hurst- Mods: Corsa catback, SSE, Vararam

09-15-2009, 07:24 AM	#17
fastball Banned Drives: 2017 Camaro 2SS 6MT Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Cleveland, Ohio Posts: 4,361	Sounds like the parking brake mechanism needs to be adjusted. Take it back to the dealer - it should fully engage with the handle only about half way up. It should be very tight at that point - in neutral on a hill the car should go nowhere. Most cars have tension adjustment screws/bolts under the center arm rest for this, and they should be able to adjust the tension to each wheel individually. The proper way to do it is to find the tension adjustment bolts, jack the rear of the car up, pull the parking brake handle up about half way, and spin the rear wheels individually by hand, and tighten the tension bolts untill the very point the wheels no longer spin (and do not tighten the bolts after that point).

09-15-2009, 08:31 AM	#18
MSG' Drives: 2010 1SS Camaro Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Elgin, SC Posts: 832 View My Garage	mine works fine

09-15-2009, 10:48 AM	#23
DDustiNN Drives: Cars Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: N/A Posts: 1,986	"I rent a lot of cars, but I don't always know everything about them. So a lot of times, I drive for like ten miles with the emergency brake on. That doesn't say a lot for me, but it really doesn't say a lot for the emergency brake. It's really not an emergency brake, it's an emergency 'make the car smell funny' lever." - Mitch Hedberg

09-15-2009, 10:56 AM	#24
Mason44 Drives: 2011 2SS Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Texas Posts: 376	Sounds like someone needs it to take it to the dealer ship and have them fix it.

09-15-2009, 11:03 AM	#26
coolman Guest Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: PA Posts: 4,812	Go down the road about 30 and give a good hard rip and see what it does. I really hate those no good rotten liying parking brakes.

09-15-2009, 11:04 AM	#27
chrisinlittlerock Drives: 2010 Camaro/08 Tundra Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Little Rock Arkansas Posts: 797	Mine works great, __________________ Rally Yellow 2SS/RS with Custom painted Black Rally Stripes, Heritage grill, Corsa cat backs with x pipe, CAI. Delivered: 8/18/09!!!!Yes!!!! "This is CHEVY country. On a quiet night you can hear a Ford rust."

09-15-2009, 11:04 AM	#28
SleepWarz Banned Drives: 1991 New Yorker, 69 Tbird, ABM2SSRS Join Date: May 2009 Location: BC Canada Posts: 2,248 View My Garage	I always though cake was a lie.

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