Drum roll!!! How do pull your handbrake on?

[wolfracesonic]

Having somehow seen the 'what kind of re-fueler are you?' thread reach 8 pages, I now feel it is time to ask an even more
pressing question, namely when you pull on the handbrake do you depress the little button or do prefer the sound of the ratchet action if you just give it a good old yank?(the handbrake that is)





this st never ends does it?

[SS2.]

Always with the button, never on the ratchet.

[Rawwr]

Button. Ratchet sound makes my eyes fall out.

[98elise]

Always on the ratchet. Never had a rachet failure in 30 years of driving, or know anyone thats had one. Its a myth that it damages the ratchet..

[Mr MXT]

Pull out the handle.

[Countdown]

Button, not ratchet.. Just seems mechanically more sympathetic.

[TheLordJohn]

Not this st again!?

[Sixpackpert]

Neither, just lift a button with a finger.

My old cars I always pressed the button then lifted it.

[g3org3y]

I stay on the brakes in the hope of annoying Liquid Knight.

[Megaflow]

98elise said:

Always on the ratchet. Never had a rachet failure in 30 years of driving, or know anyone thats had one. Its a myth that it damages the ratchet..

Always with the button, purely to avoid the noise.

Who came up with that gem, that not using the button damages the ratchet?

[ismellburning]

Press the button, because on my very first driving lesson my instructor told me the sound of the ratchet sets examiners' teeth on edge.

Has stuck ever since, although I let the button pop out and give the ratchet an extra click if I'm parking on a hill.

And that's the most I've ever thought about it.

[UK952]

With my right hand in my 944s and with the button pressed.

[Dr Interceptor]

Never... I just leave it in park.

(in most cars)

[Mr2Mike]

Follow the manufacturers recommendation. On some cars you are supposed to apply the handbrake without pushing the button (e.g. Hyundai Coupe).

TheLordJohn said:

Not this st again!?

Sadly yes. Death, taxes and inane threads about handbrake application are just some of life's constants.

[DKS]

Depends, but I'm not bothered either way. It's a ratchet, so it's designed to be used as such. After my wife was advised not to make the noise on her test, once she passed I said I was more worried about applying it securely than making a <1 sec noise. She's only small, so needs the advantage the ratchet gives. Her daily is 25 years old with a quarter of a million miles on it, and it's fine.

[kambites]

The handbrake on the Elise is fecking useless anyway - the ratchet is too widely spaced so even if you've been driving relatively sedately, the brake comes off to the point that the car will roll away as the brakes cool down.

Usually I leave it in gear so I don't care about the handbrake at all, but if I really need to use it for some reason, the process goes - button in, lever up, button out, both hands on the lever and yank repeatedly as hard as a can until I hear the ratchet click.

[CrowCrow00]

I honestly don't think I've ever heard a handbrake ratchet before I'm not going to depress the button today just so I can hear it.

[V8LM]

Always with the button as it's a fly-off.

[4v6]

I drive and park with the handbrake on, saves on ratchet wear.

[SavanP]

4v6 said:

I drive and park with the handbrake on, saves on ratchet wear.

Sadly when driving the D4 it is now a button that you just pull up - what happen to the lovely mechanical handbrakes!