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Parking break binding
- Thread starter ZimitiZ
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keith1200rs
Passed Driver's Ed
If I have put my golf in the garage wet, it makes quite a clunk when the brake comes off, particularly if it has been left a day or two. I guess you could turn off the brake manually rather than relying on the car doing.
PanEuropean
Ready to race!
I don't think there is any way around that. The UK is what is considered a 'saline atmosphere' due to being surrounded by salt water. The brakes are sticking because a small amount of corrosion develops when wet brakes are applied in the presence of an electrolyte solution (water, either mixed with road salt in the winter, or atmospheric salt from sea breezes in all seasons).
I recall that when I moderated the Phaeton forum on VWVortex from 2004 to 2014, we had quite a number of corrosion-related problems brought up by UK based forum members, but not a single corrosion problem was ever mentioned by North American or continental Europe members.
Michael
Sorry, I don't understand.
PanEuropean
Ready to race!
No, there is no need to be concerned. This issue of "sticky brakes" is common worldwide, especially if you are proximate to an ocean.
In my career as an aircraft pilot, I encountered the very same problem if aircraft parking brakes had been left on overnight - it would require a bit of power to break away the next day.
Don't worry about it!
You are misspelling the devices that stops your car. Correct is; BRAKES. Common error, but only in the past few years. Not certain why!