As per title... Driving at 10 mph (empty road I may add) if you enable the handbrake it works and slams the brakes on and then releases a second later.

Interestingly the braking force felt like if was the front wheels with the nose dipping.

How does the electric handbrake work , any diagrams ?

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I think that you will need to ask your friendly Skoda Technician how that works, I'm just about getting to grips with the Infotainment System lol  

Will ask my Audi mastertech friend

Not 100% sure this is the system on the S3, but can't be far off...it mentions "new Passat"

http://www.volkspage.net/technik/ssp/ssp/SSP_346.pdf

As per title... Driving at 10 mph (empty road I may add) if you enable the handbrake it works and slams the brakes on and then releases a second later.

Interestingly the braking force felt like if was the front wheels with the nose dipping.

How does the electric handbrake work , any diagrams ?

Page 13 of the guide suggests that if the parking brake button is pressed while the vehicle is in motion, hydraulic pressure is used to brake rather than the electric motors (presumably generated by the ABS/ESP unit).

EDIT: Bit more about this on P24-25.

Edited 11 April, 201610 yr by muddyboots

BMW ebrake does the same. Pull it on in an emergency and it puts the service brake on first not the parking brake. If the parking brakes shoes are anything to go by, I suspect they aren't actually capable of stopping the car in the event of both service brake circuits failing.

I had a Passat loaner with an electronic handbrake and I tested the eBrake function on an empty country road. It's the same as coming to an emergency stop via the brake pedal. Might be useful if a passenger needs to stop the car with the driver incapacitated or a problem with the pedal etc. It's all covered in the manual.