Newbie looking for pointers re EPB

Hi Folks.
Just joined today - never knew just how much support & camaraderie there was out there...
About me: been retired a few years and bought a Freelander 2 after my Jaguar XJ went to the big scrapyard in the sky with a dead engine. It wasn't the best for coping with Scottish winters and after I blew a tyre a horrendously potholed road in the highlands I knew I needed a Landy to get about up there. If only I'd made the jump sooner, I would have saved myself thousands before the Jag met an undignified end. It was such a good car for distances and oddly more economic the faster I drove (it was the same one Clarkson drove on the Basel to Blackpool challenge) and it was really economic.
Had the Freelander for 2 1/2 years now but, like most of us, it hasn't had much use through the lockdowns. It's a 2.2 diesel automatic and so far it has behaved impeccably with one minor exception:
With the gearbox in drive, stopped at traffic lights, I often put the EPB on, so that the brake lights don't dazzle those behind. It has just started jerking forward quite sharply when I release the brake pedal. The EPB still holds but it is worrying - a) that it will hold and not send me into the car in front and b) that it will get worse. And of course, the complicating factor is that it is intermittent. I haven't yet established whether it is related to cold or hot running but most of the time I don't have the aircon on so there's not much load on the engine.
I would greatly appreciate any suggestions as to what might be causing it. It was serviced in Feb but hasn't had a lot of running since then - I get out in it 2-3 times/week at the moment.
Thanks in advance for the help. If I need to post this in another area, please let me know.
Cheers!

Welcome to the madhouse best popping over the same query on the Freelander section. much more knowledge on there than here.

Welcome
Maybe lack of use or crud build up.best ask in here https://www.landyzone.co.uk/forum/land-rover-freelander.9/

Loads of good guys to help.

personally don’t use ours much during normal driving, most I would do is put in P if at lights on flat place, are you giving it enough time to fully release before applying lead foot Iknow you can do that but haven’t really tried.

Go ask the good guys.

J

Hello and welcome
EPB= work of the devil

marjon said:

Welcome
Maybe lack of use or crud build up.best ask in here https://www.landyzone.co.uk/forum/land-rover-freelander.9/

Loads of good guys to help.

personally don’t use ours much during normal driving, most I would do is put in P if at lights on flat place, are you giving it enough time to fully release before applying lead foot Iknow you can do that but haven’t really tried.

Go ask the good guys.

J

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Thanks for the pointer. I'll post it there.
It's not the release that's the problem: it's engaging the thing in the first place and the jerk comes when I take my foot off the brake to wait for the lights to change. I will probably have a look under tomorrow.
Appreciate your time.

Welcome to the forum

When you've got it on D it's still trying to move forwards. If it's the later model auto setup then there's a low coast setting where it automatically reduces that drive force when the foot brake is applied, after about 3 seconds.

I have never come across someone who puts the hand brake on and leaves it in D. Put it in N instead, and see if you still have problems. As above, when putting it in D let it take up drive before pressing the accelerator pedal. It reduces the jerk you can get when D in introduced and the revs are higher than tickover.

Hi
Thanks for your input. I also posted this on another thread and a member suggested changing the fluids - the car's done just over 72K so maybe this will help. It has actually stopped doing what I had the issue with and I'm doing a bit of travelling at the mo.
As for putting it into N when stopped, that's what I was trying to avoid for no other reason than having to reapply the footbrake before re-engaging D to move off. What I had been doing was just engaging the EPB then releasing the brake pedal whilst waiting for the lights to change. I can best describe the sudden jerk as if you had put the handbrake on then released the clutch in a manual having left it in gear. It had never done that before and my Jag which had a similar set up didn't do it either. You can feel the engine take up the slack, as it were, but the jerk as I describe it is quite sudden and a lot more violent than I would have expected.
Your comments on it reducing the drive force after a few seconds is interesting and I would always slowly lift off the brake pedal, just in case the EPB had failed to engage. I think I will try it with different timings to see if that makes a difference. It certainly doesn't do it in N.
Thanks again.