NightPHEVer
Well-known member
Had a look in the handbook - section 7-14 does not surprisingly state, "P" park: The wheels are locked. When you park your vehicle, be sure to apply the parking brake and press the electrical parking switch. There's a lot of stuff in section 7-03/04 about precisely how to apply the parking brake and also about parking on uphill and downhill slopes. Wheels turned against curbs and even 'apply chocks to wheels'. So are Mitsubishi expecting the handbrake to fail then, or is this a bit of litigation speak?
The thing is - if somebody was injured or killed as a result of this specific design failure on a PHEV the implications of not having a recall would I suspect become a lot more serious. Although if you Google 'handbrake failure' it seems to be quite a common occurance on all sorts of vehicles.
I would certainly get legal advice - sometimes the threat alone is enough to scare big organisations in to paying-up. Out of court settlements usually a lot cheaper and more discreet than court proceedings. I'm quite sure you don't need all this **** though. The amount of time and grief involved so far and yet to come will no doubt be very tiresome.
The thing is - if somebody was injured or killed as a result of this specific design failure on a PHEV the implications of not having a recall would I suspect become a lot more serious. Although if you Google 'handbrake failure' it seems to be quite a common occurance on all sorts of vehicles.
I would certainly get legal advice - sometimes the threat alone is enough to scare big organisations in to paying-up. Out of court settlements usually a lot cheaper and more discreet than court proceedings. I'm quite sure you don't need all this **** though. The amount of time and grief involved so far and yet to come will no doubt be very tiresome.