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Old 01-19-2009, 02:27 PM   #13
rl05mustang
 
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Originally Posted by red07Pony View Post
I hear ya, but I hate not using my e-brake. I was also told by a "brake specialist" that if you never use your e-brake that that is no good as well. Not sure how accurate that is but that's what I was told anyway....
This happend to me as well but it was above freezing when it happened. It got worse a couple of weeks later when th eweather got to the freezing mark and became undrivable. My mustang had about 62K miles at the time.

It ended up being the e-brake cables, but do to the mileage I changed the rear calipers as I noticed the e-brake lever was a little lazy as well. I notced that the rubber boots had deteriorated and allowed water to get in causing the left wheel to lock.

These 2005+ mustangs also seem to be snesitive to parking brake adjustment which in cold weather can cause it to freeze as well. I have an 05 GT with 15K miles that did the same thing in the cold until I adjusted the tension, since then no problems.
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