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Originally Posted by Badger61
Why would you not leave a vehicle in gear if you parked on a hill???? Sounds like another failure of the operator to me.
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Badger 61 & A8 Tech, your defensive of the Audi brand is admirable, before I proceed further allow me to list the cars I run at the minute which are as follows; A Land Rover Discovery 3 54 plate owned from new, a Porsche Cayman s 07 plate and an Audi A3 07 plate.
I would expect niggles with all cars with the possible exception of Porsche and a handful of Japanese, however what I would not expect is a main safety component part to fail so catastrophically as it did on the Audi A3.
Allow me to remind you both the car was not even three weeks old, it had been parked and held on the handbrake for at least 30mins before deciding to release itself.
Yes we can go on forever about the fact the driver didn't leave the car in gear but you are missing the fundamental point!! Any handbrake should always remain capable of supporting the weight of the car otherwise what is it's use?? Would it's failure to do so actually not lead to it failing an MOT?? or are you suggesting that if when driving any manual car if it is required to come to a halt on a gradient we all just sit there on the clutch and throttle??? Surely not??
The fact is an A3 Audi handbrake failed and it is not the 1st, check out this forum and to boot the same quality product ships water into the drivers footwell when it rains heavy.....
Sorry Badger and Tech there is no defense and attempting to blame the drivers of these Audi's involved in these instances or claiming never to have encountered a handbrake failure is definitely no defense...