Frozen Parking Brake

[captmiddy]

So went out to drive my truck the other morning and couldn't release the parking brake. Worse is that I have a short driveway and there is a fence across the street so the tow truck driver that was supposed to come to take my truck to the dealer to be looked at had to try moving the truck with the brake on. He was able to get the brake to release by forcing the truck to move, but now my brakes are soft.

So I drove it to the dealership and they took it in and looked it over, 4 hours later they called to tell me the obvious, the brake had frozen. But now comes the interesting part. They said that Honda wants to look at my truck in a week and that they won't be able to replace the parts until Honda gets a chance to look it over, so don't use the brake for a week. Apparently they have had a problem with the parking brake on the Ridgeline freezing up when really cold (it was 20 for 3 days straight here and I didn't drive it for 3 days so apparently this did it). Given that Honda seems to think this is a problem, I am hoping that they will repair the brakes for free and not just call it a wear part. I have under 20k miles on my truck so I wasn't expecting any brake work for another 2 years or so. (I do about 6000 miles a year on my truck).

I saw another discussion about Honda discontinuing the Ridgeline. It would seem to me if they were killing off the truck they wouldn't spend a lot of time on investigations like this. Replace the parts and let it go. This seems like, send out the guys, figure out what is wrong, and make the truck better. We shall see. I did tell the Toyota dealership I was at recently, that they would have to kill me to get me to get rid of my truck. But we did trade the Civic Hybrid for a Camry Hybrid. I still am hoping for a Ridgeline Hybrid in the future, but diesel wouldn't be bad if it could be converted to biodiesel.

[reggiewilliams]

I have been dealing with the sticking park brake for two years now. You can search for my previous posts for details.