Ping Ping

[Ian in Northampton]

My wife just brought the Galaxy home. The handbrake warning light was flashing on and off and there was a warning 'ping ping'. What's that all about then? I couldn't find a reference to it in the handbook... (I subsequently drove the car and the problem seemed to have gone away.)

[Guest MATT]

maybe she had left the handbrake on while driving?

 

matt

[Ian in Northampton]

Matt: I didn't know you knew her? :angry:

[Topbloke]

Hi ian , i know that the vw T4's do make this noise if you drive with the handbrake even slightly on so perhaps this is the same on yours try it and see !!!!!!!!!!!! :angry: :) :)

[Guest MATT]

Matt: I didn't know you knew her? :)

...don't all women leave the handbrake on...THEY THINK ITS AN AIR FRESHNER, BECAUSE WHEN THEY TAKE IT OFF, THE SMELL OF BURNING GOES AWAY! :angry:

 

matt

[Ian in Northampton]

Thanks Andy. I'll do that and see what happens. Matt: LOL!

[Ian in Northampton]

Well, I tried driving with the handbrake on sufficiently to have the dashboard warning light on, but no 'ping ping'. Hmmm...

[Ivor]

I did this for the first time a couple of weeks ago :lol:

 

Mine flashed the light and did the ping ping. The ping ping brought my attention to the light and when I felt the handbrake it was on!

 

(sorry - for the above please read: My wife did this........)

[Ivor_E_Tower]

(Should I mention this?)

I have this problem when using the handbrake to check speed on long downhill inclines ......

[Guest MATT]

I have this problem when using the handbrake to check speed on long downhill inclines ......

... i don't understand what you mean? are you using the handbrake to slow the car down while moving?

 

matt :lol:

[Dave-G]

B) "Ping" - :(

 

:( Pong B)

 

"(Should I mention this?)

I have this problem when using the handbrake to check speed on long downhill inclines ......"

 

B) Is this from a previous post ivor? B)

[Ivor_E_Tower]

... i don't understand what you mean? are you using the handbrake to slow the car down while moving?

Yes. This is what the handbrake is for, according to the MOT. It doesn't have to hold the car on a slope, only provide enough deceleration if you have to use it to stop the car in an emergency (eg footbrake failure).

[faded-fish]

... i don't understand what you mean? are you using the handbrake to slow the car down while moving?

Yes. This is what the handbrake is for, according to the MOT. It doesn't have to hold the car on a slope, only provide enough deceleration if you have to use it to stop the car in an emergency (eg footbrake failure).

You're only supposed to do that sort of thing in emergancy situations - otherwise you are likely to "boil" your brake fluid and loose the brakes anyway!!! I know this from experience (old Audi 80 with sticking handbrake - VERY scary when the brakes fail completely :D )

[Masked Marauder]

... i don't understand what you mean? are you using the handbrake to slow the car down while moving?

Yes. This is what the handbrake is for, according to the MOT. It doesn't have to hold the car on a slope, only provide enough deceleration if you have to use it to stop the car in an emergency (eg footbrake failure).

I beg to differ.

 

Set figures are often used by testers for rolling road handbrake tests, however the correct method is to calculate the required braking efficiency for the weight of the vehicle using the tables at the rear of your MOT testers' handbook. The handbrake then should be 16% of the figure, as:

 

16% parking brake efficiency equates to a vehicle holding on a gradient of 1 in 6.25

 

Nothing to do with deceleration.

 

Perhaps you are confusing it with a hand-operated secondary braking system.

[Sharanfx]

Just check your brake fluid level, on VW's this is connected up to this warning as well.

[Ivor_E_Tower]

16% parking brake efficiency equates to a vehicle holding on a gradient of 1 in 6.25

"equates to" - the MoT does not require the handbrake to be tested to see if it will hold the car on an incline.

[sad_git]

Speaking MOT language, it is properly called a 'parking brake'.

[sad_git]

Interestingly, vehicles with single circuit braking systems have to make 25% efficiency on the parking brake instead of 16% for dual circuit.

 

This suggests that it is considered as an emergency brake and parking brake on single circuit systems and just parking brake on dual circuits.

[Masked Marauder]

16% parking brake efficiency equates to a vehicle holding on a gradient of 1 in 6.25

"equates to" - the MoT does not require the handbrake to be tested to see if it will hold the car on an incline.

The test is to ensure the parking brake is capable of holding a car on a 1 in 6.25 incline. It is nothing to do with a secondary braking system, indeed, and I can also assure you of this, if on your driving test you touched the handbrake whilst the vehicle was moving you would fail on a serious safety failure.

[Guest chapi]

It took me 5 minutes to realise my Ping Ping was I'd left the indicator ON when I removed the key from the ignition! :)

[faded-fish]

Doh!!! B)

[Masked Marauder]

It took me 5 minutes to realise my Ping Ping was I'd left the indicator ON when I removed the key from the ignition! B)

That would be the parking light warning then.