Originally Posted By: Shannow
Heard that many times about Commondores, and seen rally drivers mess them up loads.
How functional are they as an emergency brake ?
The ''hand brake'' was always considered an emergency brake....before those new fangled foot pedals came in.Here in NZ where vehicles have a safety/compliance inspection every 6 months (my full time job at the moment)we just used to drive along and rip the hand brake on and make sure we got a couple of good black marks.Doing that on the VN would rip the brake shoes right off the backing plate and make a real mess of the whole set up....try explaining that to a customer! We were warned about it before they came out of warranty and into general workshops.Now we do a 1 in 5 or stall test on them.Sometimes I'll jump in a Falcon and pull the brake on and hear a bang in the back end....oops! Falcon's changed at some point,and I can never remember what model I'm in behind the wheel.
Heard that many times about Commondores, and seen rally drivers mess them up loads.
How functional are they as an emergency brake ?
The ''hand brake'' was always considered an emergency brake....before those new fangled foot pedals came in.Here in NZ where vehicles have a safety/compliance inspection every 6 months (my full time job at the moment)we just used to drive along and rip the hand brake on and make sure we got a couple of good black marks.Doing that on the VN would rip the brake shoes right off the backing plate and make a real mess of the whole set up....try explaining that to a customer! We were warned about it before they came out of warranty and into general workshops.Now we do a 1 in 5 or stall test on them.Sometimes I'll jump in a Falcon and pull the brake on and hear a bang in the back end....oops! Falcon's changed at some point,and I can never remember what model I'm in behind the wheel.
