4-wheel disc brakes
Parking brake won't hold the car on my slanted driveway even at full extension. Need to tighten it up. Don't like using the pawl in the automatic transmission to hold the car in place.
This has discs for all wheels; however, are the parking brakes the old fashioned shoes? I've seen video showing a plug in the brake housing and a star screw to adjust the parking shoes in the back. That's one way to adjust the parking brake if that's how they work in my car but I can see a problem in getting matched settings on both rear wheels. From
The other method is to get the adjusting nut on the parking brake mechanism under the center console. At first, I thought I was going to have to remove the center console. No adjusting nut in front of the parking brake lever seen through the rubber flap. Just the switch there for the Parking Brake dash indicator. Found the nut on the backside of the lever through the split rubber cover.
It took something like 5 full turns to get the parking brake to start to hold the car at the recommended 8 clicks. Takes 11 clicks to hold the car on an incline. In fact, I had to switch from a regular 10mm socket to a deep well socket due to the nut having to travel down the bolt so far. I put the car in neutral to test the hold of the parking brake on an incline. I then put the car on the level car port in neutral and could easily move the car so it doesn't seem the parking brake is dragging despite having to rotate the adjustment nut so many turns.
With so many full turns (~5) of the adjustment nut on the parking brake lever to get the parking brakes to hold the car on an incline, does this mean the shoes need to get replaced? Or do the star screws need adjusting (requiring jacking up the car) and then readjust the parking break travel? I've had the car inspected but I suppose they can just see the pads and not the parking brake shoes.