I’m very grateful for finding this video. We just purchased a brand new Toyota with the same Parking break. We didn’t notice until 2 days later that it makes that kind of loud sound. We called Toyota and was so upset because we thought we got a defective vehicle. This video educated us that it’s normal. Thank you so much for making this video. ☺️

I've learned MUCH MORE about my new Highlanded from Steve than I did from the dealer.

The Million dollar question is: should we use leave it in Automatic all the time or change it to manually?! What are the Pros and Cons?!

Just bought a new RAV4 and heard the motor noise when pulling into garage when putting in park and didn't know what the noise was. This explained it well. Thank you.

Thanks so much for this. I just rented a Highlander and I have to stop and park on a steep hill to open and close my farm gate. Really prefer to use the parking brake but I couldn't figure this out to save my life! I appreciate your keeping us all safer!

What about a parking brake malfunction it is stuck on ?

Thank you I picked up my vehicle from service and they had turned off the interlock brake and I was freaking out for a hot second because I thought they broke my park brake automatic function

I just got a new toyota corolla cross 2024 but it has a foot parking brake , now I'm wondering if they are all like that

This is something you don’t normally need!! More stuff that can break 🙄

Hi Steven, thanks for the post! I recently have the message “ EPB shift interlock function activated” appears on the dashboard right after the engine started and then goes away with 16K miles on the car. I have the automatic EPB feature on always but had no this message before, wondering why I do see this message now. Any of your thoughts on this will be much appreciated!

You are the man within minutes I was able to put my brakes back to automatically

Thanks Steve, you do a great job explaining.

I have a manual Corolla. Never liked the feature so glad I found your video. Looking forward to going back to old school, use it when I need it.

Thank you for sharing this! I accidentally shut mine off and couldn’t figure out what happened and now it’s all fixed 🎉

So helpful. Thanks for your video- that brake was driving me crazy!

This was super helpful. Thank you so much for educating me on this. I needed this.

Thank you so much for the education. I also have learned more from you than my Toyota Dealer.

Aloha Steven, Love your videos. Thanks for producing them...

Thank you! Where I live in the frozen north, the parking brake feature was causing the pads to freeze or corrode to the rotors, and they had to break free every morning - sometimes not so easily.

Thank you so much. I was worried because the brakes was not working when I was putting gear into parking, thank you so much for the help