Has anyone experianced their 2004 S2000 hand brake becoming loose after 1K miles ??

Mine worked its way down the drive and bumped into my other car !!!

Amazingly absolutly no damage !!!

Can Anyone give me instrucations on how to tighten the handbreak ??

Best Regard

Psytec

 

I havent noticed anything yet, i hope it doesnt happen to mine

dont know how to fix it either... warranty work!

 

I assume you're under warrenty? Take it to a dealer....could be just the handbreak or could be something wrong with the brake system. As long as you think your dealer is compentent, take it to them, won't cost you anything but probably a few hours without your car....

 

You don't need to tighten your parking break.

You should ALWAYS park the car IN GEAR so this doesn't happen. As the breaks cool, the rotors actually shrink enough that the parking break doesn't hold as tightly as when you first apply it. Leaving the car in first if pointing up hill and reverse if pointing down will keep the car from moving.

Hope this helps.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by toosteeley
You don't need to tighten your parking break.

You should ALWAYS park the car IN GEAR so this doesn't happen.

 

the handbrake is an aid in the proper parking of an automobile. it is to be used in conjunction with setting the transmission in gear, per your owner's manual.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Ace10
the handbrake is an aid in the proper parking of an automobile.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by tekAP1

 

Psytec, the handbrake on the S2000 doesn't work properly. You are not the first to see your car move after securing the handbrake, it has happened again, again, and again.

People have had their cars leave their driveways, hit other cars, hit mailboxes. One guy almost had his car roll into the Pacific Ocean. To my knowledge nobody has been killed by this yet, but then we wouldn't hear from them here anyway....

Many owners who have had problems with their handbrakes have been chastised on this board, so I wouldn't be surprised if many people just don't say anything about it when their car rolls down a hill.

You are about to get all kinds of advice on how to park properly, about how to read the manual, about how everybody knows you are supposed park in gear, about how your driveway shouldn't be so steep, about how you should never idle your car. Please be patient and take it all with a grain (or a shaker) of salt.

Nobody, however, will be able to tell you that they trust the brake by itself to do anything on a non-level surface because it just doesn't work unless the brakes are absolutely cold when you apply the handbrake.

The bottom line is the brake doesn't work. It hasn't worked since the first Model Year 2000 and has not been corrected or improved in any model year after. It is more a a hazard on the car than a help.

Do a search on "parking brake" or "hand brake" and you will see some of the previous discussions about this problem.

You could do a lot of future owners a favor by printing out the threads and mailing them to NHTSA, asking them to suggest a recall by Honda to fix this serious defect.

 

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