You've got to understand. Someone must be at fault! We live in a society of victims. Someone needs to address this issue. Someone needs to be sued.

Perhaps .... I know.... FEMA. The Federal E-brake Malfunction Administration. Maybe we can get the director canned.

Sorry, JS224. Don't take it personally. I just couldn't resist.

And to answer your question, yes, it has happened before and will happen again. The S seems to be a little more prone to it. It happens all the time to lots of different kinds of cars.

 

Maybe since your S2KI age is 0 Years and 0 Days, you should listen to what others are telling you.

There is no inherent defect in the emergency brake system of the S2000.

Your situation occured because you incorrectly parked the car.

There have been several other S2000 owners who have made the same mistake.

Don't blame the car when you lose the rear end, either.
-Pete

 

I'm sorry to say this, but it's completely your own fault. It doesn't matter what kind of car it is, you should NEVER leave any vehicle with a manual transmission parked on ANY incline with just the emergency brake engaged. This is not simply bad practice, it's dangerous to other people.

The correct procedure involves 3 steps:

1. Leave the car in gear (1st or reverse is fine).
2. Engage emergency brake.
3. Turn your front wheels so if your car does roll, it rolls into the curb.

This is common knowledge, I'm surprised you blame Honda for being ignorant. I'm sorry about your car, but if you had hurt someone in this situation the law would have seen it as 100% your fault. Good thing no one was injured by your rolling vehicle.

 

You mean that guy who had the apple fall in his head? He's dead, isn't he?

 

bump...

I backed my S out of the garage this morning, lowered the top, put it in neutral, set the E. brake & jumped out to close the garage door. As I started toward the garage I noticed the S was slowly moving backwards down the drive-way. Luckily I was able to reach over the drivers door and give the E. brake a good yank to stop it.

So if you leave your S in neutral for even a few seconds, give the E. brake a strong pull to set it.

 

I have also heard when a car is very new the cable that actuates the Emergency Brake can also stretch slighty.
Note: In the helms manual somewhere it say's the S2000 e-brake should be fully engaged between 9-13 clicks I think. If the the e-brake is not fully engaged within 9-13 clicks it is out of adjustment. I don't know how they define "fully engaged".