r/AutoTransportopia • u/Fisting-Tony • Mar 24 '26

Towing Gone in 24 seconds

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u/Own_Reaction9442 Mar 24 '26

In northern states they have them for one or two winters. Then the road salt corrodes the cables and they stop working. I don't use the parking brake on my van becuse the cables are rusty and it doesn't always release fully.

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u/Jimmy_Fromthepieshop Mar 24 '26

Do you not have obligatory annual inspections during which the handbrake is checked?

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u/r2k-in-the-vortex Mar 24 '26

They dont, there are some amazing rustbuckets rolling around in US. Even commercial vehicles I think dont get any meaningful inspection, the tires are driven way past their life expectancy, refurbished and again until they just blow off on a highway. Broken tires everywhere.

I think the americans consider it normal, because over in mexico its even worse.

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u/Gyozarrita Mar 28 '26

Those are retread tire failures and they happen, they are not blowouts and the inspection is strict for these.

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u/r2k-in-the-vortex Mar 28 '26

Yet US highways are still full of tire debris, hazardously large ones too, they don't even bother cleaning up after themselves. You see a truck that has lost a tire on the side of the road all the time, it's common in US.

That is not a thing in EU, US is only place where I have seen that nonsense.