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This is true for pretty much all cars made in the past 10 years with electric parking brakes. Even more so in the past couple years with complete brake by wire systems now being used. We are starting to get cars in quite frequently where the owner tried to replace the brakes themselves, or flush the brake fluid, and the brakes are no longer working and the dash is lit up like a Christmas tree.
Imagine my (mild) shock after doing my own brakes for 30 years and then coming upon this tidfbit of knowledge JUST after buying parts for my truck.
For anyone else navigating all the misinfo around doing this on a ford truck:
Set the ignition to ON.
Press and hold the accelerator pedal and place the electronic parking brake (EPB) switch in the APPLY (upward) position. Continue to hold the accelerator pedal and the electronic parking brake EPB switch.
Firmly press the brake pedal for at least 1 second. Release the brake pedal while continuing to hold the accelerator pedal and the EPB switch.
Set the ignition to OFF then set the ignition to ON within 5 seconds, then release the accelerator pedal and the EPB switch.
Are you to chant in Latin or Enochian while performing this ritual?
I really wish there was an open source car I could buy and tinker with.
I’d love to make one myself, but I don’t have the talent, money, or commitment.
I’ll keep dreaming that it will happen one day.
Shit like this only makes me want to never buy commercial cars ever again. I’ll buy every piece of a car and put it together myself before subjecting myself to that kind of abuse. I’m never going back to a renter lifestyle.
Repeal DMCA section 1201.
Eventually vehicles will be more like the other tech in your life, sorry you want to but tires from a company that we don’t approve of, not going to happen because we approve the tires to work with our system and the tire pressure monitor is only compatible with Bridgestone tires. Plus they add 30% to the price of the tires for their testing and making sure that they work, nothing to do with profit.
Or like the cell phone industry, you go and fill up with gas, now there’s still gas remaining in the car near the end of the month, next thing you know the gas station employee is there to siphon out the gas you didn’t use. Well that might be a bit far fetched.
Throw a stupid chip into anything and then someone else has the control, which really is what the governments of the world want, they’ve had it with people getting ahead and questioning their decisions after all they know better than you and they will lead you.
Don’t laugh, but BMW in kinda like that with their BMW approved “star spec” tires. Transfer case blows up with non approved tires? Too bad. But the star spec version is different than the normal retail version, they are actually better.
Counterpoint: why would you need to replace brake pads on an electric car? Regenerative braking should rarely need the mechanical brakes at all.
