Electronic Parking Brake in Golf 7

[Guest001]

My manual mk7 only has 3 switches on the console - the auto stop/start, the auto hold and the E brake - and I never touch any of them and have no need to. I leave them all on all of the time. My wife however accidently pulled the E brake lever up the other day when I was doing 100km/h on the highway and that's when we found an instant total lock-up of the rear wheels is not something any driver would want to happen. All she was doing was reaching to pull the centre slider lid shut and didn't look at what she was doing.

You are right though - if VW was really serious they would have moved all those controls to the driver's side of the console for right hand drive cars. It wouldn't stop passenger fiddling with or accidently using them though. The indicators and wiper controls should be swapped too.

All Euro cars and trucks have the wipers that way you just get used to it.

Be thankful you weren't driving the assortment of buses I was. In the morning in a Merc afternoon in a Hino or even the Merc that had the controls swapped over That one caught us a few times.
LOL

[flashman1207]

Question on Parking Brake

In regard to the Electronic Parking Brake what happens if you forget to press the button? Does the car automatically apply the handbrake as a safety measure when you leave the car? Am worried the missus will forget to apply the handbrake and lose the car down the hill....

Thx

[veew]

If the car is in Park then the car won't move regardless of whether you engage the EPB or not. I don't know the finer details of what braking systems are activated in the different situations but I've done it a few times in a rush and find the car "rocks to a stop" if it is on a slight incline, similar behaviour with normal automatic vehicles.

[flashman1207]

If the car is in Park then the car won't move regardless of whether you engage the EPB or not. I don't know the finer details of what braking systems are activated in the different situations but I've done it a few times in a rush and find the car "rocks to a stop" if it is on a slight incline, similar behaviour with normal automatic vehicles.

Oops, I forgot to add that its a manual I am considering....... it makes sense to me that if the seat belt was not on and the key was not in the ignition that the park brake would be activated automatically. Just need someone to confirm as I forgot to ask or try it during test drive

[donweather]

I don't believe the electronic park brake in our tiggy (manual) comes on automatically after you turn the engine off.

But in the old days with hand brakes were your worried about the missus forgetting to put it on?

[Guest001]

Doesn't in the Passat either You have to pull it up to set it. Train wife buy diamonds wave in front of her till she does it automatically.
Then hide diamonds in case she forgets. LOL

[davo]

Doesn't in the Passat either You have to pull it up to set it.

The handbrake on our Alltrack comes on (and off) automatically.

[flashman1207]

Problem is we have other cars WITH handbrakes. Its more likely I will forget than her as it will be her daily drive and I drive an old 94 Patrol

[Nauend]

The DSG has an auto hold feature, so if you leave auto hold turned on the park brake will automatically engage when ever the car stops. I'd assume a manual has the same feature?

[donweather]

The DSG has an auto hold feature, so if you leave auto hold turned on the park brake will automatically engage when ever the car stops. I'd assume a manual has the same feature?

Yep this is true on our tiggy although only when you turn the car off. But I hate the auto hold function so generally don't have it turned on.

[wai]

Oops, I forgot to add that its a manual I am considering.......

Actually, you can be fined and get demerit points for not leaving the transmission in gear when you park a manual. I know my brother did. He just had the parking brake applied. As the brakes cooled down, the pressure came off the brakes and he found the car had rolled down the street and into a power pole. Fortunately no one or car was hit, but the police were called and he was fined and got demerit points for failing to leave the car in gear. You might even fail your driving test because the last thing you are asked to do by the examiner is to park the car and secure it.

Automatic transmissions have a dog clutch that blocks the output shaft from rotating when in Park.

[Guest001]

The handbrake on our Alltrack comes on (and off) automatically.

If you have autohold on. Will only come off automatically if you have seatbelt on also.

I rarely use autohold therefore mine does not come on when I stop.

[Velocity_Racing]

The auto hold function uses the abs pump based on the brake pedal pressure when you come to a stop, not the electronic handbrake.

[brad]

Actually, you can be fined and get demerit points for not leaving the transmission in gear when you park a manual. I know my brother did. He just had the parking brake applied. As the brakes cooled down, the pressure came off the brakes and he found the car had rolled down the street and into a power pole. Fortunately no one or car was hit, but the police were called and he was fined and got demerit points for failing to leave the car in gear. You might even fail your driving test because the last thing you are asked to do by the examiner is to park the car and secure it.

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It's also sensible to turn the wheels into the kerb on a hill. I believe it's a legal requirement on the Streets of San Francisco - Carl Malden will book you.

It doesn't take much of a drive or much heat in the brakes to get the rotors expanded enough so they let go when they cool. I've had it happen on my car in my driveway.

[Guest001]

Just been out and tried mine.

With the Auto hold OFF the handbrake does not apply automatically.

With Auto hold ON it does.

It does not release under either unless the driver has their seatbelt fastened