"Doug Miller" wrote
Trust Mercedes to do something bizarre. Your car is the exception, I
assure
you. *Every* vehicle I have ever owned used a cable to activate the same
pair
of rear shoes or pads that were activated hydraulically by the service
brake.
That list of vehicles includes three Dodges, a Plymouth, a Ford van, a
Fiat, a Chevy truck, a Dodge truck, two Mazdas, an Oldsmobile, two Buicks,
two
Suburbans, two Saturns, and a Pontiac. _Every_single_one_ used exactly the
same pads or shoes for the parking brake as for the service brake.


Times are changing. You think it is bizarre, others are doing it now.