E brake deployed...

What a sour situation.

when it rains, it pours. keep your head up, sooner or later, the frustration will subside. it may be a day, a week, or a month, but eventually, it will go away.

The ebrake failing could be a lot of things. maybe an animal got hungry, maybe you ran over something, maybe the previous accident tweaked it. Shit happens (excuse my language).

Sounds like perhaps the rear brakes seized up on you? maybe being in snow had something to do with it.

Good luck

 

Good grief, James, which ghod did you piss off? Seriously, so very sorry to hear you are having such hard times. I will keep you in my thoughts and send good vibes in your directions.

 

Murphys law

 

Wow, I am so sorry to hear about your situation. Will pray for you, light a vigil at church and be thinking of you. No words I can say will really help but I have been homeless myself after being hurt in the service and it taking a long time for the VA to help. Have serious health issues myself but each person's problems are so very different. All I can say is I feel for you and pray things get better for you.

 

I sure do hope things look up for you! I see your in the military so thank you!

 

I don't understand. Is E-brake electric in prius?

 

no.

 

That's what I thought. Why all the talk about broken wire and how can it deploy itself then?

 

It froze locked up.

 

The emergency brake? Is that what's being discussed here?

 

Yes

 

The more articulate/detailed reply for friendly_jacek would be that something damaged the cable which controls engagement of the emergency brake, thus causing the brake to engage on one tire while the car was still in motion which resulted in much damage to the tire. At least, that's my own take on what appears to have happened. We may never know precisely what caused the emergency brake failure (or cable failure as the case may be), unfortunately.

 

There are instructions in the manual on how to stow it out of the way. I suspect it would be difficult to remove altogether.

 

On the part where the belt attaches to the seat (not the regular buckle) there's a little grey portion. Stick your key in there to press it and it'll unlatch, and you can stow it in the ceiling.

 

It always takes me forever to work out... it is never called an emergency brake here (and certainly not an e-brake). It is always a parking brake (as it is called in the manual). This thread is helping a little becuse I'm having this slow penny-drop experience when I see this pop up every day...