handbrake

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handbrake

1. a brake operated by a hand lever

2. the lever that operates the handbrake

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Owners are being offered a replacement handbrake fitted free.

Recall for runaway Hondas

All owners can go back to their dealer to have a new handbrake fitted free.

Hondas in handbrake scare recall

At the time Vauxhall admitted other owners had reported the same problem, but said repeated tests had failed to find a fault with handbrakes.

Vectras recalled over brake problem; Vauxhall acts over 250,000 models

Driving instructors are no better, if anyone should apply their handbrake you would think a driving instructor would, but one in front of me did not.

Letter: Dazzling the other drivers

12% of women and 7% of men had no idea what the handbrake warning light was;

It's worrying so many female motorists are in the dark over symbols on their dashboard

After you hook up to the trailer, apply the handbrakes and move the trailer slightly to sec if the brakes hold the trailer wheels, if they do, go ahead and finish your mission.

Handbrake adjustment: M101/M116-series trailers ..

Unless you've been driving your Musso on the handbrake and prematurely wearing out the rear shoes, there's something wrong.

Quentin Willson's Motoring Column: HELP!; YOU ASK ME: All the answers to your tricky car problems

Ryan Swift, 12, who witnessed the tragedy in Walkden, said the driver was doing handbrake turns to impress a group of girls.

10-IN-JEEP SMASH BOY KILLS PAL, 14

The handbrake had failed to hold the vehicle, which rolled down and smashed into a Citroen Saxo belonging to her 19-year-old daughter Gemma.

Car problem? Blame the wife

They broke into the vehicle and released the handbrake causing it to crash at Maureen Burns' West Belfast home.

Yobs trap disabled woman

The Slaithwaite youngster was arrested after a handbrake was allegedly let off a parked car on Heath Close in Linthwaite at 12.

Arrest after car `rolls'

And now he has the paperwork to prove it - with Ford recalling his car and a number of other Mondeo models because of concerns about their handbrakes.