stevedross
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I'll add support to what the gentleman claims happened with his emergency brake engaging on its own. My 2016 Civic just did the same last week for the second time I've had the vehicle. The first time was about a year ago. The dealership got that glossy-glaze look on their faces like I was making it up. I did a quick search of the forums and found several others who had it happen to them as well, including a gentleman that said his engaged on him twice while he was driving. Anyway, they did their hocus pocus with the software recall and for a year it hadn't happened again until last week. I got into my car to start it up and an "Emergency Brake System Failure" warning came up and my car wouldn't move. I had to turn off the car and restart it in order to disengage the brake. I take it to the dealership next week. By the way, during the first bout of this lunacy they also had to replace my dead radio. And now, my radio is acting up again, my sunroof leaks, my auto-lock doesn't function properly, if at all, etc. I wanted this car to be a car that I could keep for more than 10 years, but it scares the hell out of me thinking the parking brake will start acting up in the future. So to call all of this scare mongering, is irresponsible and uneducated on the subject.Again knock off the scare mongering, there are no reported issues with the electronic parking brake activating by itself while driving down the road including expressways. You are attempting to scare people into thinking there is a problem with the electric parking brake activating on its own when the fact is there are no reported problems of the electronic parking brake ever activating on its own while driving down the road.
The only documented issue with the electronic parking brake was if you turned off the car before the electronic parking brake was done setting the electronic parking brake would not complete the function, that was cured via a Honda software update that keeps power to the electronic parking brake until it has finished setting.
You can jump up and down and make false claims all you want but there are no reported issues with your bogus claim. You don't do anyone any good when you make up phony problems and run to an internet site and start telling people to get their car to Honda or your electronic parking brake might activate while you are traveling 75 MPH down the expressway.
You have never experienced the electronic parking brake activating on its own while you were driving down the road, instead you set it in your mind that this might happen when the facts say you are wrong. You have made up a nonexistent problem and now you are posting on forums like this one trying to convince everyone their electronic parking brake might activate while they are driving down the road, you are spreading a false issue/rumor with your unsubstantiated claim.
P.S. I never use a parking brake so it's not a situation of "maybe I turned it on or maybe I didn't"
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