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Just a reminder that you should service your parking brake when you have your rear brakes serviced.

Pulled my rear rotors off today because the parking brake was not holding. Wow. I guess the winters (salt, slush, water etc.) really take a toll on these things.

The regular brakes - I had two seized caliper sliding pins on the driver's side. Freed and lube these up. The parking brakes - Driver's side was seized, and the passenger side, while working was really really rusty. The passenger side also made a really loud squeeking sound when applied.

Checked the shop manual - turns out there are several spots where the shoes rub against the backing plate and those spots are supposed to be lubed with high temp grease. Vehicle is a 2006 and I'm guessing the parking brake had never been serviced.

Anyhow, freed up the driver's side, lubed both sides, loud squeeking gone and both wheels lock now when the parking brake is applied. There was a hell of a groove in the driver's rotor on the inside where some dummy (I bought my 400h used, so I know it wasn't me) drove with the parking brake applied. Don't know how, since there is a loud and visible warning in the dash if you drive with the brake applied.

Guessing new rear rotors, pads and parking brake shoes are in my near future.