OT Daily Drive E-Brake

Bill Berckman · 2005-04-03T14:26:23+00:00

My Emergency brake on my Daily Driver 95 Escort Wagon was not holdingthe car and needed some adjustment. Car is a 5 Speed, so I need it towarm the car up because my driveway has a very minimal incline. I takethe car to Meineke Muffler & Brake Shop to have the adjustment made.The car has over 100K on it, so they said that the cables needed to bereplaced. For some reason they said this car uses Three cables. I goto get it fixed, and they said that I need back brake pads or the ebrake probably won't work because they are pretty worn. It had been along time since I replace the back brakes, so I went ahead and got thatdone too.Got the car back and it worked for a couple of weeks, and it started toroll back in the driveway again with the e-brake fully on. I took itback to Meineke, and they said that you are not suppoed to use thee-brake to hold a car on a hill. They tried to claim that my drivewaywas practically a 90 degree angle even though one of the techs drove bymy house to look at it and saw that it was not much of a hill. Theysaid that Ford says that you are supposed to use reverse as your ebrake, and not use the actual emergency brake to hold the car. Theysaid that by using it to hold the car in the driveway that I am atfault and must have stretched the new cables and ruined, so tough luck. I told them I wanted at least a partial refund because I came to themand paid hard earned money to get a problem fixed and I still have thesame problem. They said a big NO on that. They told me that I shouldtake it to Ford (and pay myself) and have them look at it and see ifanything was done improperly. They also said that this problem must bea defect on this particular car, and it is not their fault. I e mailedMeineke Corporate, and got a response back that was expected which wasNONE. It is not a big enough amount of money to incur the expense ofsuing over and I can't really take off work to go to small claimscourt, but the arrogance of this organization...

Apr 03, 2005 74 Replies

Rate this thread:

Kidd Andersson 21 years ago

Duh. It's called a Cherokee Laredo. One and the same vehicle. In '87 they added some horsepower and made the Cherokee a little more beefy. It's going to be fun to take off road. I'm determined to make it kick the hell out of the CJ 5. You don't mind, right honey?

Vote

Kidd Andersson 21 years ago

WHAT A LOAD OF BULLSHIT! You sit here and tell the boys about how you yanked up the emergency brake in the middle of downtown Orlando... IN THE DAY TIME... and spun us around in a circle for... umm... NO APPARENT REASON, which just added that much more stress to my poor little heart since I had a minor coronary. Had a cop been sitting there, your ass would have been tossed in jail for wreckless driving, booted out of the country and never allowed to come back. Which of course would have been a lesser charge than.. oh say... when you ran from the cops?

Vote

Shag 21 years ago

Yep. That's me. Doing everything "by the book" when it comes to my VWs. :-) *cough cough idiot cough cough*

"Stupid people are funny." - me

Vote

jjs 21 years ago

Love is in the air.

Vote

Jan 21 years ago

She loves my driving :)

Jan

Vote

jjs 21 years ago

She writes like a pit-bull.

Vote

Jan Andersson 21 years ago

Maybe I like a woman who doesn't draw her punches ;)

Jan

Vote

Shag 21 years ago

formatting link

"Stupid people are funny." - me

Vote

Tim Rogers 21 years ago

............It's 'pull' her punch.

........Siwwy wabbit.

Vote

Shag 21 years ago

Does she "engage" her parking brake or "set" her parking brake? Just so we're clear here. I'm not saying she does either to actually PARK the vehicle. There may be an emergency in the scenario...

"Stupid people are funny." - me

Vote

Tim Rogers 21 years ago

..............She does whatever Jan says.

timmy

Vote

John Willis 21 years ago

On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 00:22:20 GMT, "Tim Rogers" scribbled this interesting note:

Right. I'm really seeing that.

-- John Willis (Remove the Primes before e-mailing me)

Vote

Jan Andersson 21 years ago

RUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Rrrriiiight

Jan

Vote

Kidd Andersson 21 years ago

Funny. I was thinking about you guys tonight when I parked the Honda on the nearly vertical slant we call a driveway. Trying to remember the proper protocol, but since it wasn't an emergency, I just said f*ck it. :D

Vote

Kidd Andersson 21 years ago

HAHAHAHA! Damn that was funny. Yep. That's me. I do whatever Jan says. Like when he says "Honey, there's money in the bank. Go spend it." or... "Honey, I said something really stupid so please smack me really hard." or "Honey, I refuse to let you take out the trash/do the dishes/take care of the baby. Let me do it." Yep. Always do what he says.

Vote