My brother's 04 Track was parked on the driveway at 8:00 AM, at 11:30 AM it rolled down and ended up across the street on my neighbors lawn. We got it down and took it straight to nissan. Somehow, there was absolutely no damage (body, rims, or otherwise).

I have an 06 Enthusiast and my e-brake doesn't do a damn thing either. I need to try tightening it. Is this a common problem?

A few pics of the aftermath (nothing was resting on the curb, just missed the mailbox)






(pic showing where it was parked on the driveway. My car 1/2 in the pic on the right)

 

tee hee...it's the parking brake gnome...what a guy

 

Yip, common problem.

 

put it in gear when you park. nice to see no damage tho

 

Damm your brother car looks just like my Z haha

 

my parking brake needs to be tightened as well.. no matter how hard i pull it doesn't lock

 

you shouldve left it in gear. but i need to put my e-brake all the way up before im sure car wont roll down. even if its almost all the way up it still rolls down for some reason

 

yeah i think they did make the ebrake a bit too loose on the 350z, it needs to be pulled up quite high to fully lock.

 

glad that everythings okay. I always put it 1st gear or r when I parked.

 

It's pissed that it's dirty.

 

K "tee hee" is inappropriate.

 

oh man wow.......glad there was no damage, but yeah, you need to leave the car in gear...always!!

but the parking brake can be adjusted/tightened.......you have to pick up the coin holder and look down in there and tighten the nut on the threaded screws....

check the pdf factory service manuals....it has step by step how to do this..
-J

 

here ya go..

 

d*mn that sucks, but always leave it in gear(1s or R) as well. I need to have mine adjusted as well

 

thats hilarious, the exact same thing happend to my sentra. i heard my door bell ring and there my neighbours were. "um your car is in the middle of the road". i look outside, damn. it was kind of embarrasing.

 

holy crap, how can there not be any damage, look at the size of the curb!

I would have thought that atleast your muffler would have gotten scraped up

 

yeah, this situation reminds me of one time when i was in college.......i was coming out of a store and some girl forgot to put her car in gear and it rolled back after she went inside and hit the car parked across the way.........guy was pissed! poor girl came out seconds after i did and freaked out..lol

-j

 

...but that's the parking brake gnome's laugh, bra. HE'S inappropriate don't you think? Or your bitterness from another thread that put me in your sights to antagonize. K?

 

Yea i'll be the first to admit thats mybad, i had to take my gf home real quick out of the house and i usually leave our cars in gear but i must have forgot in my hurry

 

My '06 is the first car I have ever owned in my life that CAN NOT lock the wheels at any speed and I have owned some real pieces of sheet in my time. At freeway speed it barely scrubs off any speed at all. I could literly pull a fred flintstone and get it to stop quicker.

I once put the ebrake on on a pea gravel driveway that was flat and it still moved.

Only way it would hold was to pull it up till it bottomed out which after a few months blew out the whole system which they fixed under warranty. Even when it's adjusted in spec it still doesn't hold.