I've done it, too. Doesn't say good things about the parking brake as supplied...or is it called the Emergency Brake? Probably not called the E brake because of liability...If you tried to stop your vanagon in an emergency with these brakes, you would probably hit whatever you were trying to stop for...I mean, if we can drive around with our 'conservative on power' motors and not even notice the effects of having that hand brake on.... Mine will now hold my van on a 4% slope without the aid of the transmission...before....with the old style handle...no... So, can we add an ineffictive parking brake to the list of 'misses' or 'less than perfect designs' from VW and the vanagon designers? We surely have to begin the list with not so great headgaskets on the WBX motor.. We should include the heater valve and maybe the headlight switches..any others? Don Hanson On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Bill Shawley <easywind1975@hotmail.com>wrote: > I've had the same experience as Michael, (embarassed to say I've done it > twice). I did flush out my fluid as early as convenient figuring it was > "shot". No problems since. > > Ryan > > |
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