Emergency Brake

[GoPitt68]

So the wife decides to drive my car the other day...and I had my 2006 Corolla S' emergency brake on, and she proceeded to drive it a few miles before she (DUH!) realized the parking brake was on. First of all, how was that possible? I jack that hand brake up all the way each time...you'da thought she couldn't move at all since it supposedly locks up the rear drum brakes.

Second of all, how much damage do you think she did? I was going to see if the brake shoes got glazed over and maybe sand them a little bit.

Anyone you know ever do something as stupid as this?

[freakinbox]

cars will move with the ebrake on. Your putting force on it the parking brake just holds the car there.
When I was taking drivers ed the teacher told us of one of his students doing it on their driver test. They brought the car back to him and the rear brakes were smoking.

[REN69]

My car won't drive with the parking brake on.. so no.

There's probably no damage done to the brakes though unless of course she jumped on the highway and drove for 15mins before realizing it, if they still feel the same then yeah nothing is wrong with them.

[freakinbox]

maybe thats a benifit of rear disc? better ebrake when parked?
My car has trouble. Did it a few times when I first got the car but 90 hp doesn't tend to like that much lol

[GoPitt68]

Thanks guys - it seems to drive the same - she probably only took 2 yrs life out of them babies

Wonder why they put drum brakes on the Corolla (and Sienna) - seems like most modern cars use 4 wheel disc brakes nowadays

[caddymac]

Drum brakes are cheaper to make and have cheaper parts. The only thing that sucks about them is that they need to be adjusted occasionally and are a pain to change compared to discs.

Drum brakes make much better parking brakes than disc brakes. Usually when a disc brake is used for a parking brake, one came overcome the coefficient of friction and move the automobile with relative ease. Drum brakes tend to wedge the pad into the drum and take a bit more omph in order to set the vehicle in motion.

My last car had both drum and disc brakes in the rear. Discs for brake pedal stopping, and drums for parking brake duties. Made the rear discs a bit hard to take off and replace, but the park brake worked excellent, and no need to worry about parking the car and forcing a hot pad against a hot rotor in just one spot.

[freakinbox]

the rear drum and disc combo is dumb, the drum part usually makes it a pain to change them because it sticks or the backing plate rots and such. Alot of pick ups with rear disc have that style

[xrated3345]

wow that sucks. thats why i dont let my wife drive my car plus she tried to learn stick shift and yea no she got 1st gear but never got into 3rd so yea. and she sdrives with her ebrake on to. must be a women thing