No Parking Brake!!!

A few days ago, I rented a Buick LaCross for a week. Since my driveway has an incline to it, I usually set the parking brake before exiting the car. So when I parked it in my driveway the first time, my natural reaction was to push my left foot on the emergency brake pedal.

But my foot kept wandering around looking for a pedal that wasn't even there!hno:

WTF!!!! Well, after searching for a few minutes, I just gave up and went inside. After all, it was dark and not much could be seen in the dark.

Next morning when I headed out to work, I was determined to find this darm brake pedal if it was the last thing I would do. I looked under the dash....on the side of both seats....even on the ceiling of the car......but no brake. Since they usually don't have owners manual I would either have to go to a Buick dealer or figure it out for myself.

As I looked at the center console for something else, the was a small button with a capital "P" on the button. I touched the button and it moved down. A message popped up on the dash stating "you must have your foot on the brake to set parking brake." I put my foot on the brake and pushed the button down again. Voila!! A red light started glowing that flashed "PARK"!!! Mission accomplished.

Apparently it's an electronic device which opens and closes the rear brake calipers. Pretty cool once you get used to it!

not too cool if you can't find it in an emergency situation....like brake failure !

I didn't even know Buick was still around !

Weird. On a side note, I didn't pull my parking brake up high enough when going into a store. Only one other car in the parking lot. Of course my car rolls backward about 20 feet and swings to the left another 10. Sideswipes the bumper of some brand new luxury car. Scratches their vehicle ($1000 paid out of pocket for the fix) and tears the shit out of the side of my car. Lovely.

I thought you were going to say the next morning the car was out in the street.