In our fleet of ninety plus company cars we have twenty six diesel Astra hatchbacks and estates. A fault is occuring wher the hand brake (mechanical not electronic) is failing after the car has been parked a while.
Our supplier suggested that the drivers were not applying the handbrake properly, ie pulling up to a stop, keeping pressure on the foot brake whilst applying the handbrake. We memo'd the drivers to ask them to follow this procedure but to no avail, six cars have had the brake fail, one twice after going in to a local Vauxhall dealer who denied that there was a problem and found no fault with it.
I know that it is good policy to leave the car in gear but feel there is an under lying
problem. Have any of your good selves any experience of this?
Last edited by: VxFan on Mon 28 Jan 13 at 13:04
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