Originally Posted By PaulJ
Originally Posted By Scrambledsignals
Whilst it must be disappointing to have this problem on a new car, issues with handbrakes are by no means uncommon.

Honda had to recall nearly 80,000 Civics and VW and General Motors have also had problems.

Agree that this should have been sorted out in the development stage, but even the big manufacturers don't always get it right


You're telling me, I have had a BMW X5 for the last 11 years, and the handbrake is even worse than the ARP4, the only saving grace is that it is an auto, so has a Park lock. BMW were never interested in fixing it and liked the car too much to park it outside their showroom and walk away. Maybe I should have?


Had exactly the same issue with the handbrake on my old BMW X1 when it was new

I took it to the dealership who had a look at it and just came back to me 2 hours later and said they had done all the tests on it, didn't find any problem and it "was within the manufacturers tolerances"

banghead

Got back into the car hacked off to find they'd fixed it thinking


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