Only one EV charger at home?!

For some reason we call it a "parking brake" - maybe because most of our cars are manuals. But I don't use it, ever. I thought they were for learner drivers who can't do hill starts with a footbrake.

Having one in an automatic is even stupider, just use P.

Calling it an emergency brake is daft, have you ever tried using it at any decent speed? Excellent way to spin the car, it only brakes the rear wheels.

Why the f*ck would you downgrade your car like that?

Why would changing the transmission change the brake?!

A frog pig confiscated my radar detector. I was told I could have it back if I went to the French court in the south of France, after I'd returned home. It wasn't worth the fuel.

All of your comments assume that the failure is gradual, with prior warning. Some failures are sudden, without warning. You hope that the imminent failure will be picked up on an inspection, either on an MOT or at a service.

Consider a corroded brake pipe (assuming that the primary circuit has already failed and this is a failure in the backup circuit). The pipe will withstand the hydraulic pressure for applying the brakes until one day the corrosion becomes too great, or you press the pedal a bit harder

- maybe in an emergency - and you suddenly have no brakes.

I've never had a brake failure, or even (as far as I can remember) corrosion of brake pipes. I know the theory is to use the handbrake, but I've yet to drive a car where the handbrake, firmly yanked on, is enough to slow the car much: the handbrake is enough to hold the car when it is already stationary but not to slow the car very much if it is moving.

I was surprised that a broken spring didn't affect the handling of the car.

Confirmation that it's not likely to fail and start slipping, and incredulity that a clutch can last that long, when those of all the previous cars I've owned had got to the top of the auto-adjustment range and/or started to slip at around 70-100,000 miles.

I had this happen to me with a new (to me, but second-hand) VW Golf - the first car I'd had with an automatic choke. As with a manual choke, when the choke is "out", the idling speed of the engine is also raised.

I was driving on the M25, not long after it opened, and came to a traffic jam (maybe an accident). As I came to a halt, I noticed that the engine was racing a bit. It continued to do this every time I started the engine to move forward a bit (and then turned off the engine during the times when we were going nowhere). It was embarrassing because people thought I was impatient. I couldn't do anything about it because of course being automatic choke it didn't have a manual override.

It turned out to be a failed choke mechanism (I think the garage talked about a wax sensor which melted when the engine got warm, "pushing in" the choke, but was sold when cold, "pulling it out". Covered by the garage's initial warranty on the car that they had sold to me only a few weeks earlier.

What _should_ happen is that the dual circuit comes in to play, and most of your brakes work with reduced efficiency - enough to make you wonder WTF happened.

I imagine if you ignore it the reservoir will empty after a couple of uses.

Andy

the reservoir has a wall down the middle splitting it in two so a leak in one circuit can't empty the other circuit

You worry about the unlikely.

Mine tend to not work at all. Because I never use them? Can they need use to remain strong?

I was surprised my burst front tyre wasn't noticeable (at about 20-40mph). I guess the power steering corrected it? Unfortunately it meant by the time I realised, the tyre was irrepairable.

Then you ride the clutch, learn to drive properly. I've only replaced a clutch once, when I bought a car at 37,000 miles with one previous woman owner. It was so bad I could only start off in 2nd.

If they all fail, you just get a heavier brake pedal, no big deal.

I can tell you from personal experience that, at least in some cars, it works fine.

I had the brakes on my beloved Honda Insight (the first and original model, accept no remakes/redos/imitations) replaced on a routine maintenance repair.

I then got on the highway and drove about an hour.

When I slowed down at the exit, I notced a very ugly shudder on a front wheel.

I pulled into a parking lot, slowly went back and forth and braked here and there, and figured out "something" was loose on the front tire brake assembly.

Now... in the normal course of events I'd have pulled over, called the shop, and MADE THEM arrange a tow and immediate repair, but...

... but ... it was Saturday evening and 75 miles away, and I was picking up my wife at the train station.

So... I waited for her at the Amtrak stop, picked her up, and then drove back onto the highway. I yes, used the hand brake to slow down and stop at the couple of red lights / stop signs before the highway, then used it again to slow down at the exit, stop at the intersction, rinse/lather/repeat until we got home, and then the same Monday morning enroute to the shop.

Fortunately it was the front brake and not the rear, so yes, the direct link hand brake trick worked.

You can't even show a female nipple in public in California, what the f*ck are you guys doing?!

But if I have the vaccine, I 100% have the vaccine. If I don't have the vaccine, I most likely don't have the covid, which is just a bad cold.

They even give flu vaccines, my aunt just had one, she felt like she had a very bad flu for a day or so. Not sure what the point of that was.

No, it's the idiots injuring themselves through their own stupidity who whine.

The warnings state the obvious. Let those who don't see the obvious be removed from the gene pool.

A saw can cut your finger off, really? I would never have worked that out.

Why would you teach 10 year olds how to use a saw?

Doesn't that increase danger? No vent, the gas glugs as it comes out and spills on the floor.

Any gun can kill a person, why allow some and not others? Either ban them all or allow them all.

And you should definitely allow the cop killer bullets!

As a manufacturer, I would simply refuse to sell them to the places with the stupid laws.

I taped one of the levers on my hedge trimmer. Now I can use it one handed and reach further.

Inconvenience is as important as treehugging.

It's yard. Merkins can't understand grass/lawn/garden.

I think I was 11 when I took shop class in grade school with table saws, band saws, and drill presses. What was I supposed to take? Home economics where the girls learned how to make small stuffed animals? A power sewing machine could be just as dangerous.

Sometimes bad enough to kill or to give you long-covid, both of which are much worse than a bad cold.

It makes you much less likely to get actual influenza, which can kill you if you old enough or sick enough when you catch it. It also make it less likely that you will catch it and pass it on to somebody else, which is always an issue with infectious diseases.

Commander Kinsey s remarkably stupid, even for a Scottish wanker.

Even of a three year old.

Or the annual Bay to Breakers race. Or the Doo-Dah parade.

For every nude body you want to see there are 10 you can't unsee. No thanks.

What's wrong with society? ONE person does something stupid, so they assume the other 8 billion will do the same?! When I was a kid, they removed the tall slide from the park because a kid was so stupid he climbed over the tall (for kids) railing at the top and fell off and died of a broken neck. So they removed it to allow other idiots to stay among us. At least they never took any action when some asthma weakling drowned under an upturned sailing boat. I don't think they could think of a way round it, apart from closing the whole sailing centre down, which thankfully they didn't.