Park off light question

bennzwel

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Hi all,

In past two days , after using a car for an hour or so, when I tried to park the car( forward then reverse ) I get park off light on dash board . And pressingthe Park off button doesn’t make it disappear .

The parking brake gets engaged and relaxed without any issue however I won’t unless I manually release it when I put it in gear .

I read on some threads about battery , battery is less than 3 months old and car gets a good drive few times a week.

The park off light goes away once I turn the car off and on again.
What could be the problem ? I don’t have any other errors or any issues .

Mine is a Mc shift model.
 

CatmanV2

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Are you saying that you always have to manually release the parking brake? It doesn't come off automatically when you try to drive away?

C
 

bennzwel

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Are you saying that you always have to manually release the parking brake? It doesn't come off automatically when you try to drive away?

C

It always does , only the last two days when I’m trying to reverse and park the car after drive the message pop up . It doesn’t go away unless I turn off the car and back on again .
When it’s on , the parking brake doesn’t disengage autoamcially when car is put in the gear. So it seems it is doing what it says but I don’t know why it happens first place

I expect if I accidentally press the park off button ( I usually take the car off Sport and Mc model before park for a smooth action ), pressing the button back would reactivate it . Wouldn’t it ?
 

Oneball

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You have to press and hold the park off button for a few seconds to deactivate it and you have to press and hold it for a few seconds to reactivate, it’ll then say park on.

Might not explain why it’s coming on but might explain why you can’t reset it, if you’re not holding the button.
 

CatmanV2

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It always does , only the last two days when I’m trying to reverse and park the car after drive the message pop up . It doesn’t go away unless I turn off the car and back on again .
When it’s on , the parking brake doesn’t disengage autoamcially when car is put in the gear. So it seems it is doing what it says but I don’t know why it happens first place

I expect if I accidentally press the park off button ( I usually take the car off Sport and Mc model before park for a smooth action ), pressing the button back would reactivate it . Wouldn’t it ?

Right got it. I suspect you've got an issue either with the EPB ECU, or you the shoes are going.
Either way I think you're going to need a proper diagnostic. :(

You might want to see if you're boot is leaking and has made the ECU wet....

C
 

bennzwel

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I took the negative terminal of battery off and left it for half an hour , plugged back and let the car realign itself and went for two drives .

Never did that again . Maybe a glitch in ecu or maybe a certain behaviour of me triggered it .

If anyone else has same problem , might worth to try it too.
 

CatmanV2

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I took the negative terminal of battery off and left it for half an hour , plugged back and let the car realign itself and went for two drives .

Never did that again . Maybe a glitch in ecu or maybe a certain behaviour of me triggered it .

If anyone else has same problem , might worth to try it too.

Always a reasonable idea

C
 

FF1078

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Battery? Mine used to do that when I hadn't used it for a few days. It's cold so your battery wont be holding charge as well as normal. Do you have it on a trickle charger?
 

bennzwel

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Battery? Mine used to do that when I hadn't used it for a few days. It's cold so your battery wont be holding charge as well as normal. Do you have it on a trickle charger?

In my case it wasn’t low battery but the disconnect might have resolved a software issue . I tested the battery and all is good with it . I drive the car few times a week for at least an hour each time on motorway so it gets charged properly . No trickle charger currently.

In my case it would only show up when I was trying to reverse park it in the garage . Was very odd but it is fixed now whatever it was . Taking it to my indie mechanic in few weeks for an oil change and will ask him to run diag to be sure it’s all okay