When parking a car on an incline, we all know to use the parking brake (or hand brake, emergency brake, e-brake, or whatever you want to call it). It's also good to turn the wheels toward the curb to ...

Turns out, despite the noise, it’s perfectly fine to yank up on your handbrake without pushing the button. Here’s why. At some point you’ve probably been one of these two people: the person that ...

Hello Paul, my handbrake does not hold well anymore, especially when I park on a slope. A friend told me the cable might be stretched or worn out. How does the hand brake cable work, and what risks do ...

I can't explain the coincidence but I had started to write a piece about electronic parking brakes when I got an email from a reader which I think sums up many people's frustrations. The Westmeath ...