In the US, there is a 1 in 93 chance you will die in a motor vehicle crash in your lifetime
In the US, there is a 1 in 93 chance you will die in a motor vehicle crash in your lifetime
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I could've died in a motor vehicle crash just in the past week! A tire shop broke 2 wheel studs trying to remove the lug nuts, replaced them and SIMULTANEOUSLY TWISTED THE BRAKE LINE REINSTALLING THE BRAKE CALIPER. I didn't know until I had gotten to the job site after driving AN HOUR (2 hour round trip!) THROUGH WINDING MOUNTAIN ROADS EVERY DAY FOR A WEEK. I got to the job site today (technically yesterday) and the line finally popped. Holy shit.
I've been thinking about how many times in the past week the brakes could have totally failed so many times just in the past few hours. If you ever get work done on a vehicle of any kind that could 100% kill you if done something goes wrong please please please double check their work (or have someone you trust do it) and hold them accountable.
I can't embed images directly from Sync but rest assured I have many pictures of their handiwork and will be doing something about it
Edit: I'd like to specify that this is in a heavily loaded work truck and not a car. If I had lost brakes going down the mountain not only would I have had no way to stop, I would've been going so much faster than a car.
Dude that's serious as fuck, wow. How did your wind up stopping, parking brake? I've been worried about this ever since parking brakes became electric vs the older cable types.
Luckily I had just made it into the driveway before they completely failed so I was able to put it into park. But yeah, the parking brake is cable operated luckily! I had a new brake line brought to me and I replaced it in the driveway and brought the brakes back to life.
Here's a picture of what it looked like before I replaced it
luckily!
No luck in it, it's part of the car design rules, even modern electronic automatic parking brakes are cable operated
I meant that it was a manual brake, not electronically actuated. My bad on that part
I'm not sure if electronic parking brakes can be set to different strengths like a manual one can or even activated while you're moving (in case of an emergency)
You can always operate the parking brake while moving.