| Uhmm.. I just made a comment about him being off base and we had a debate. I have not "condemned" him.
As for the advice you speak of, it has not changed just because you have a newer car. It is still a fail safe to keep the car from rolling out of control down a hill and MINI's brakes are based on technology that has been around for decades. Rotors and calipers haven't changed in a long time.
The fact I am trying to make is this....
If you park a car and only apply the handbrake and it fails thus rolling back and killing someone, you are going to be held responsible even if the brake was pulled. MINI will not... We have also heard many reports of MINI's rolling and if you scour the web you will find that this is common on cars with rotors all around. Older cars actually were better off with drums to be honest. I believe that MINI has a safety issue in this area. The one that I checked was all the way up and I could pull it any further. Oddly, I released the break, started the car, pumped them a few times and then reset the brake and all was fine. The owner got rid of it because he no longer trusted it.
So, to MINISalesman, I am sorry if you think that I am singling you out. I simply took offense to the fact that you were pinning the full blame on the OP when there clearly is shared blame here. Search this site and you will see that it is a common occurrence.
No condemning needed.  | 
