Changing the pads on your car’s brakes is a pretty straightforward and inexpensive process on most vehicles. However, many modern vehicles having electronic parking brakes giving manufacturers a new avenue to paywall simple DIY repairs.
Changing the pads on your car’s brakes is a pretty straightforward and inexpensive process on most vehicles. However, many modern vehicles having electronic parking brakes giving manufacturers a new avenue to paywall simple DIY repairs.
Most of the auto industry already has to deal with subscriptions to Alldata/Mitchell/Identifix, and a bunch of manufacturers requires subscriptions or to purchase 1 day access to activate replacement modules. It’s bullshit, but it’s daily life for anyone working on cars newer that 2008 or so.
That’s not what I mean though. What I mean is, in the event that for whatever reason the signal to deactivate the electronic park brake cannot get where it needs to go using the scan tool, there has to be a way to do it manually.
Say your vehicle is in an accident. Say the electronic park brake wiring is in shreds. That brake caliper needs to come off. The body shop is going to require a way to remove it if the scan tool can’t disengage it.
Say there’s corrosion in the connector. Same same. Has to come off and be replaced. And so on.
If the car complains when it wakes back up though, then you haven’t fixed the problem. If the parking brake motor locking is really the only issue than you’re right, we’ll just back probe the motor and run it backwards.