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Old 27th January 2008, 15:48   #450 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by angie4m View Post
Your not missing much, thats for sure. Only thing is, if your car did roll away then you would have a claim against Honda UK as you haven't had the letter. But after JTL's comment, it doesn't seem to really matter how the handbrake is applied. If its going to fail, then its going to fail.
There appear to be two different failure modes.

1) As described by Honda. The Civic handbrake coming off too easily.

2) As described by JTL (and others). The car creeping. This is not unheard of on disc brake cars and is related to disc cooling etc.
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