Xoutpost.com - yup! i got parking brake malfunction too LOL

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Originally Posted by xrwrx (Post 699702)

i been having this handbrake malfunction problem for a while, my dealer still not able to fix it. i send the car in for 5 times at a BMW workshop. sometime they told me dat something is loose and tighten it...and sometime they told me dat they replace some little parts.
nothing work.

one time i went to a safeway store. i was backing out and the handbrake malfunction again. i can t move the car at all, its half way out of the parking lot. lots of plp get mad with me for parking in the middle of the street..

i made an appointment to sent my car if for the 6 times (i think its the 6 times, too many times) for the handbrake mulfunction

Haven't you surpassed your States Lemon Law? I'd start pursuing it, if your car qualifies. I don't know the laws in your state, but most states give dealers 3-times, and then sometimes one "last chance" to fix an item before being required to refund full purchase funds, including tax, etc.

Not a great thing to have to get out of your car in certain circumstances, especially in an emergency. I'd be pretty peeved.

It's a simple mechanical mechanism. I think they should have left it mechanical.

There are times here in San Francisco or in Oakland, when parked on a hill, when I'll shut off the vehicle and it will roll 1/4 of a tire revolution (about 4 to 5 inches). To me, I'm cringing at the stress that's putting on the transmission, which is in park.

It's a bad design, unless it's intelligent to the point where it can realize the E-brake must be applied with more tension on a hill, than on a flat street.

Anyway, 6-times? Come on...I couldn't imagine!!

Time to call BMWNA and say you want your money back...at least threaten them with pursuing a lemon law case and see what their reaction is. You may be very surprised.