# 2017 Acura RDX - Failed brakes **URL:** \ **Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\ **Tags:** acura\ **Created:** [July 19, 2020, 5:29pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/2017-acura-rdx-failed-brakes/167551 "2020-07-19T17:29:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![NeilGiampietro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b9e5f3/32.png) [@NeilGiampietro](https://community.cartalk.com/u/NeilGiampietro)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2020, 5:29pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/2017-acura-rdx-failed-brakes/167551/1 "2020-07-19T17:29:24Z")
Brakes failed, in a drive thru picking up food, the car in front of me moved fordward, i had this same thing happen, so i had the car in park my time to go shifted the car in drive it would not stop, shifted in park still would not stop break padal when to the floor and I hit the person in front of me ---
**Author:** ![pyrolord314](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6a8cbe/32.png) [@pyrolord314](https://community.cartalk.com/u/pyrolord314)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2020, 7:31pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/2017-acura-rdx-failed-brakes/167551/2 "2020-07-19T19:31:47Z")
Tow the car to your mechanic’s, DO NOT DRIVE IT ---
**Author:** ![Renegade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Renegade](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Renegade)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2020, 7:43pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/2017-acura-rdx-failed-brakes/167551/3 "2020-07-19T19:43:23Z")
I will never understand why people don’t either turn the ignition switch off or use the hand brake in a circumstance like this. ---
**Author:** ![pyrolord314](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6a8cbe/32.png) [@pyrolord314](https://community.cartalk.com/u/pyrolord314)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2020, 7:45pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/2017-acura-rdx-failed-brakes/167551/4 "2020-07-19T19:45:46Z")
> [@Renegade](#): > > I will never understand why people don’t either turn the ignition switch off or use the hand brake in a circumstance like this. probably because the insurance industry has strongly discouraged the use of the word “emergency brake” and people don’t think of that with the hand brake. ---
**Author:** ![Renegade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Renegade](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Renegade)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2020, 7:50pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/2017-acura-rdx-failed-brakes/167551/5 "2020-07-19T19:50:55Z")
I don’t know about your area but in my area everyone I know call’s it the E brake or hand brake not the parking brake. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s-Me](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/it_s-me/32/12660_2.png) [@It\_s-Me](https://community.cartalk.com/u/It_s-Me)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2020, 8:48pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/2017-acura-rdx-failed-brakes/167551/6 "2020-07-19T20:48:30Z")
> [@Renegade](#): > > I will never understand why people don’t either turn the ignition switch off or use the hand brake in a circumstance like this. Reaction time. > [@Renegade](#): > > I don’t know about your area but in my area everyone I know call’s it the E brake or hand brake not the parking brake. Next time you’re coming down the mountain pass at 60 mph in your 1 ton dually, loaded with 2 cords of fire wood. Try stopping in an emergency situation just using your “Emergency” brake. ---
**Author:** ![pyrolord314](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6a8cbe/32.png) [@pyrolord314](https://community.cartalk.com/u/pyrolord314)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2020, 8:56pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/2017-acura-rdx-failed-brakes/167551/7 "2020-07-19T20:56:24Z")
> [@Renegade](#): > > I don’t know about your area but in my area everyone I know call’s it the E brake or hand brake not the parking brake. I’ve always called it the E-brake, I’ve heard hand brake too. ---
**Author:** ![Nevada\_545](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/nevada_545/32/41232_2.png) [@Nevada\_545](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Nevada_545)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2020, 9:34pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/2017-acura-rdx-failed-brakes/167551/8 "2020-07-19T21:34:38Z")
> [@Renegade](#): > > or use the hand brake in a circumstance like this. When the vehicles are just 5 feet apart there isn’t enough time to find the parking brake pedal with your hand. ---
**Author:** ![Renegade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Renegade](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Renegade)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2020, 10:04pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/2017-acura-rdx-failed-brakes/167551/9 "2020-07-19T22:04:00Z")
Reaction time. I agree with reaction time to a point with just about everyone now a day’s seem’s to have a need to have the phone in their hand add’s a few second’s more to reaction time.