Electronic Brake - Does it impact resale value?

tykesi

mcpitman wrote: »

, get used to it. It will be on all cars soon.

Retrofit?

I can guarantee it won't be on my car soon!

mcpitman

tykesi wrote: »

Retrofit?

I can guarantee it won't be on my car soon!

Picky !!!!!!! :rotfl:

Post edited to all new cars.

Post content remains the same, I have no issue with EPB. It works well.

gilbert_and_sullivan

tykesi wrote: »

Retrofit?

I can guarantee it won't be on my car soon!

Nor me, I can guarantee it will never be on a car i own, its my hard earned and i'll buy what i want not what a maker tells me i should have.

In 42 years of driving i've never had a normal parking brake failure...the only failure being a C4 Picasso the EPB of which locked on and had to be broken, as my post above, to get it off the transporter.

As for this hill start assist joke, whats so hard about controlling a vehicle that such tat is deemed desirable or necessary.

colino

Sorry to tell the luddites, just like every micro car has gadgets it just doesn't need, marketing has to make cars, "better" every year or they can't sell new ones, so epb is coming to all.
Just wonder how we still manage to see through the rain with just a metal stick brushing the windscreen with a slip of rubber.

JustLikeThat

I'm trying to get used to it having just bought a Hyundai i40 a week ago. I'm a bit confused with the Action Hold vs Electronic Brake.
I part exchanged my Vectra which had the traditional handbrake fail several times. On one occasion it released itself and rolled backwards into a wall and I had a £600 repair bill. Vauxhall denied there was such a problem even though it was all over the internet.

Strider590

mcpitman wrote: »

I have an EPB on my Insignia.

Works really well and in conjunction with the Hill Start Assist system is completely flawless

This needs to stop.......

Making cars for idiots, it's no wonder people get killed on British roads, no need to be a competent driver at all.

Same goes for self parking cars, I can parallel park and reverse park my Vectra with no problem at all, if people need a system that does that for them, then they shouldn't be on the f**king road in the first place.

Now if they bring out a system that shouts "SPEED UP YOU IDIOT!!!" when the driver is way below the speed limit for absolutely no good reason, then that'd be great. :cool:

harveybobbles

[quote=[Deleted User];66674647]Vauxhall even managed to screw up the "traditional" old-tech handbrake. 20 years ago my Omega would run away on the slightest slope (the dealer assured me that was "normal"), and more recently their problems with the Corsa etc. have been well documented.[/QUOTE]

HAHA! I remember moving a car out of the way at work to get an Omega out.. Our pitch was on a slight incline and the Omega followed me out..

The Passat ones are possibly the worse ones I've used. They never release when you want them to.

shortchanged_2

When will car manufacturers realise that many people don't want all this expensive to repair, unnecessary gadgetry on their cars.

OddballJamie

JustLikeThat wrote: »

I'm trying to get used to it having just bought a Hyundai i40 a week ago. I'm a bit confused with the Action Hold vs Electronic Brake.
I part exchanged my Vectra which had the traditional handbrake fail several times. On one occasion it released itself and rolled backwards into a wall and I had a £600 repair bill. Vauxhall denied there was such a problem even though it was all over the internet.

Vauxhall must have admitted there was a problem with it at some point as when my Dad had a Vectra as a company car, Vauxhall sent out a letter explaining failing handbrakes with a sticker to put in the car telling you to leave the car in gear.

That Vectra was the worst company car he had, the 1.9 cdti engine in it was hopelessly unreliable and the seats gave you numb legs after about 30 minutes. Actually preferred a Montego company car he had in the eighties to it.

OddballJamie

shortchanged wrote: »

When will car manufacturers realise that many people don't want all this expensive to repair, unnecessary gadgetry on their cars.

Same thing was probably said when electric windows and central locking was introduced.