In this video I explain and demonstrate how you can stop a car when your brakes fail. I use a combination of engine braking and the parking brake to bring the car to a stop. This works in both manual and automatic cars including cars with an electronic parking brake.
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What do you do in an elctric car that has no gears?
From what I saw in your video, it seems to me that car computer decide to use all 4 breaks to stop you if you pull electronic handbrake while you have significant speed. Look how your front end dives down when stopping; it would not if only rear wheel breaks are activated.
I brought a car with really worn out breaks and taking the car to get fixed tomorrow so just here seeing if i could use the breakpads less till i get there lol
Dual circuit brakes aren't always a diagonal split, some old cars split front to rear, also some front brakes with 4 pot callipers operate both front brakes in a two-pot calliper mode & one rear brake if one circuit loses pressure which is even better than a diagonal split, that's been done by some manufacturers as far back as the sportier BL Mini Metros, so a long time.
On cars old enough to only have single circuit brakes (ancient stuff) the minimum handbrake performance requirement for the MOT is significantly higher, from memory 25% rather than 16%.
Don't ask me details about how that fancy new electronic brake stuff works though.
I would only add to apply the parking/hand/emergency brake in a controlled, gradual way with the button pressed in rather than yanking on it without the button pressed in. Of course if you need to do a full-on emergency stop yank on it with all your might and try to keep your underwear clean…
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Really informative video, here is a bit note for myself.
Rough guide, for petrol manual car, first gear can handle around 25, second 50 and third 75 miles per hour, choose the right gear, raise the clutch and hold on the bite point, come off the clutch, then keep change gear to slow the car gradually until the first gear, when the car slow enough, push the clutch in and use handbrake to stop the car.
For automatic car, choose neutral, or L if they have.
For use handbrake alone, push the clutch in, press and hold the button while lift up the handbrake.
Best to combine the gear with the handbrake. 50 miles per hour. Clutch in, change to second gear, bring the clutch to the bite point and use the handbrake; when the speed slow enough, put down the handbrake, clutch in, change to first gear, bring the clutch to the bite point and use the handbrake, clutch in before stop.
For e-break, press and hold the button.
It is nice, but I would reeeeeev before getting into a lower gear. Even in danger, I still think about my gear’s wellbeing.
Underrated gold
Imagine making a emergency braking video and get pulled over for that by the police
also when you go into first it’s probably a good idea tap the gas so it actually goes in gear properly
Been there before in probably a near worst case scenario (excluding weather).
2.2 Ton Automatic people carrier, manual foot-operated handbrake (hand lever release), down hill to a roundabout with a hydraulic fluid leak.
Pressed the pedal and my foot kept moving to the floor (maybe 2-3s cycle time)
I had to shift down manually in the auto as far as it would let me, hold the lever-release, press the foot-operated handbrake (which was essentially useless but made me feel better) with one foot whilst pumping the normal pedal with the other. Every now and then using my elbow to knock it down another gear. All the while steering and trying to judge my distance and options for potential evasion.
Luckily the car at the roundabout pulled away before I got there and the traffic was clear then so I was able to continue through the junction to the street ahead (outside my work carpark as it happens) and coast to a halt using the now uphill street.
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This has to be the only video on YouTube that fully details the e-brake in emergency situations. I could not find another. This is valuable information. I was never taught this. 👌✌
yeah but what if… the clutch fails too?
Nice explanation bro!
That's very helpful but in some situations it wouldn't stop the car fast enough to avoid an accident. Yesterday I had a complete brake failure on a KIA Ceed Diesel (2019) 5 door hatchback, the brake pedal went very 'hard' with very little braking power. I narrowly avoided a major head-on smash at a roundabout. I will not drive this vehicle ever again, even if it is repaired, as I regard it as a death trap, and it could put you in jail for a long time also.
what if my clutch fails and my handbrake and I'm driving in a dead end street?
tutorial needed for this please
What a banger video!
this may save my life eventually
I'd like to share my friend's experience, maybe that also helps someone. She was in the city, and coming to a traffic light on a fast road. And all breaks broke (I forgot what was the reason they've diagnosed later why neither regular nor handbrake didn't work), she did engine break and then went into the curb to slow her to full stop. However DO NOT go to the curb in higer than those 5ish miles from the first gear, because you might end up on the roof :/