Alright Alright bash me, burn me, hang me, Just answer me.

KottonMouthTSI · 09-04-2005, 07:20 AM

Okay, Well I went and picked up my first DSM for the past 3 days, we drove to NY from NC 14 hours each way. We did a stright drive home, yesterday just stoppin for gas....

So this is my first quick/fast car. Since i got my liscens at 16. iv droven around the biggest pieces of shit. from Cutlass's oldsmobiles, Buick Centery nothin newer then an 89, everything as slow as cars get. Never a stick.

So this morning me and a couple buddies unloaded my TSi. Off the trailor.

I parked it. and then we messed around with the stereo for a min, cause the dude who woke me up, wanted the stereo out of it, i told him about it before.

Then he left, so me and one of my best friends took it for a test drive, around the block since i dont have any tags yet.

I drove it beautiful for it being my first stick.

But i ####ed up on one thing, All of you can laugh now, I left the emergency brake up. God damn it. Im such an ignorent automatic driver.

I realized it half way threw my test drive.

So i get home and the emergency brake wasent worken right i was rollin around like an idiot....

Do you think i ####ed it up? Because After i put it on a flat ground, i pulled the brake back again and it clicked on the very end of the way up.....

So do you think I ####ed it up? If so what do i gotta do now? If i should be fine, tell me. Maybe it will be okay now since it ended up workin.

gsx951 · 09-04-2005, 07:25 AM

There is an adjusting nut for the ebrake. It's under the console by the gear shift,. If removing the slop out of the cable doesn't do it, you might have to replace the shoes. 2G cars use a Drum -in- Disc arrangement in the rear; the ebrake has a separate little brake drum in the rotor.
Get on ebay and score on of those manual CDs.

-silencer- · 09-04-2005, 07:42 AM

Try just tightening it. If the ebrake was really working well in the first place you definitely would have known something was trying to hold you down when you went for that drive. If it wasn't tightened well, you probably could have rolled it around anyway without noticing it.