Is there a thing that can be done pressing buttons while turning the ignition on and patting your head while rubbing your belly that might make my EPB come back to life? Mine is totally dead at the moment. Flick the switch up and nothing at all happens. Hold the switch up for a second and partial Christmas tree mode is engaged, with the red and yellow park brake lights flashing.
Probably at the dealers this week anyway for a new steering wheel and a squeaky drivers seat, but I wanted to try the knowledge here first on this one.
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Everytime I read an EPB thread I touch the underside of the computer table, i.e. non varnished wood! Mine is probably waiting on some far away spot on the Tunisia trip to completely pack up. Anyone know anything definate about this EPB "fix" ???
21st Jul 2008 6:56 pm
stapldm
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Re: Silent EPB
bobbycrispbox wrote:
Hold the switch up for a second and partial Christmas tree mode is engaged, with the red and yellow park brake lights flashing.
Does that switch feel a little lighter to operate than it used to? Mine did this and it turned out to be the switch that was broken. My new one felt a lot stiffer (ooooh errr!)Dr. Ian Malcolm:
"Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
Transgenic tomato anyone?
I take it you haven't found any way of doing this?
Ours has just gone from screamer to dead in one swift move! Well, it's either dead, i.e. EPB doesn't apply, or it sometimes applies itself at some time much later, when it feels like it, then refuses to release and has to be manually released.
Just called two local dealers, who can't do anything until September because everything in this, er, country closes for August
One of them couldn't even do anything anyway since some toerags broke in and stole all their diagnostic gear a couple of weeks ago!
28th Jul 2008 10:24 am
Vanguard
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As a matter of interest we were in a dealers the other week and asked about the EPB on new (08.5) cars and were told that all the old problems had been fixed. Anyone else heard this?
I take it you haven't found any way of doing this?
It was booked in to be checked tomorrow, but three days left at the airport and it's fixed itself
The only things that's been done while it was at the airport was a seriously deep clean/valet. I didn't think it was going to go to the level of cleaning the wiring loom though
28th Jul 2008 10:38 pm
simonsi
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Vanguard wrote:
As a matter of interest we were in a dealers the other week and asked about the EPB on new (08.5) cars and were told that all the old problems had been fixed. Anyone else heard this?
a) Don´t worry, the new version will most likely have a new set of, well, new problems
b) You were told this by a dealer so no vested interest there then.... Cheers
Simon
28th Jul 2008 10:39 pm
AndrewW
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Mmmm!
I heard that at the vet's when I took one of the pigs in with a broken wing....... 2006 D3 finally swapped for a 2016 D4 Graphite in Graphite grey. No mods
28th Jul 2008 10:46 pm
10forcash
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New EPB design is scheduled for 10 MY - apparently....
In the interests of continuous development and improvement of course, not as a tacit acceptance that they f d up with the original execution. I know it's not considered "kind" to say no these days, but no. Just no, ok? And if it's not ok, still no.
28th Jul 2008 10:52 pm
10forcash
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well it works OK on the oily-rags
28th Jul 2008 10:54 pm
AndrewW
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D'you reckon it will be retro-fittable? 2006 D3 finally swapped for a 2016 D4 Graphite in Graphite grey. No mods
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because everything in this, er, country closes for August 
d up with the original execution. 
