I take it the Tire managed to replace your brake line and get you on your way within an hour or two?

Next time, don’t bother with the downshifting, just toss it into N and yard on the e-brake.

Yeah, I miss a handbrake. The damn foot emergency brake is a pain, didn’t want to lock the rear end up with a light tap on the pedal with a slightly adenalin enhanced foot.

Glad to hear your years of mobile training came back to you. Remember, let it sit for a few days so that the pads will heal. You seem to have handled it well.

I had the brakes on my van fail a couple of years ago while coming down a twisting canyon that ends with the Paulson Bridge. For the unaware, the highway has a 90 degree turn onto the bridge, with your options being a solid cliff face or down a sheer drop of several hundred feet. I had all three kids and my wife in the van.

Next time, don’t bother with the downshifting, just toss it into N and yard on the e-brake. You can also do the O’Rielly Solution. Remember his old MG? One time, we were drunk and going somewhere(Could have been pretty much any time then.). As we peel out, I point out “Chum, you are aware that your emergency brake is on?”*, to which he replied “Yeah, I know, the brakes are shot, so I put the e-brake on slightly, which creates enough pressure on the rear brakes to slow the car enough to actually stop.”**.

*What was actually said “Hey, yoursh e-thingee is going blinky blinky blonk…where ish muh beer?”
**That’s what he said. O’Rielly sounds articulate regardless of how much booze you pour into him.