The parking brake, or emergency brake, is usually attached to a car’s rear wheels. On vehicles with rear drum brakes, the parking brake is usually attached with cables to the rear brakes, as shown in ...

Lessons Learned the Hard Way About Parking Brake Failure offers practical guidance for car owners who want to reduce risk and ...

Modern vehicles tend to come equipped with more technologically advanced safety features than some owners are even aware of. While many of those systems can be pricey to repair when they malfunction, ...

Electronic parking brakes have quietly become one of the most common features in modern cars, including the best electric vehicles, replacing the familiar handbrake lever with a small button tucked ...

Mitsubishi is recalling 21,758 Outlander and Outlander Sport SUVs from the 2016 model year to replace a component within the parking brake assembly that may have been manufactured improperly. As a ...

Manual gear sticks and chunky automatic gear selectors aren’t the only controls to have been replaced in a lot of modern cars by tiny switches – the humble handbrake made that transition quite some ...

These instructions for adjusting your parking brake work only if you have drum brakes on your rear wheels. If you have a manual transmission, you may have a transmission-type parking brake, which ...