NVthis350

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After a long day's work, I decide to let my co-worker drive me home. She gets onto the highway, then i notice that she was driving with the hand brake on. damn. i immediately pushed the hand brake down and everything went back to normal. So far the car doesn't seem to have an obvious problems, but could there be? and what should i do if they happen? Thanks in advance.

nitrousoxidex

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Damn, that sux. I did that once but it was only for like 4 ft. until I noticed it.

theSmoothDome

I'm embarrassed to admit it, but I've done that quite a few times. Damn auto transmission thing keeps fooling me. The wife has an auto in the Frontier and we never use the parking brake.

Anyway, I've travelled at highway speed with it on.. ... and I haven't had any problems that I could tell. If I do, I think I'll blame the techs at the dealership .

I definately don't trust it as a parking brake at this point though.

NVthis350

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70mph for about five minutes

TakeiteZ

the 350's handbrake isn't that powerful unless you pull it up really hard... so if you had it up just a little, which i think is what happened, you can't even tell that its' up while youre driving. with the handbrake up hard, you can noticeable tell that something is holding the car from accelerating.

as far as damage, take off your rear wheels and inspect your rotors, make sure they're not scratched or anything, if its bad enough you could get them resurfaced and upgrade brake pads...

you should be okay if it wasn't yanked up all the way

dchengmd

How does this help anything? I thought the parking brake used a separate drum system and not the primary rotors/pads/calipers.