Last year mine started to get a bit temperamental and not release when driving off sometimes. Problem went away when I fitted new pads.

My driver's manual states...
"The electronic parking brake ensures vehicle immobilisation when the engine is stopped and engine Start/Stop button is pressed. In all other instances, e.g. engine stalling, the electronic parking brake is not applied automatically. Manual mode must be used".

 

Mines an automatic too, it always engages the handbrake when I stop.
Why would your car roll away in park though buddy? You’re always supposed to stop and start the engine in Park.
Even in this cold weather I’ve been leaving my car with handbrake off and in park. The gearbox is locked and the car won’t roll away.
JPB, no offence was intended re the pressing of the switch. Believe me we get dafter things said on here buddy.
Hill start on mine is like 2dogs, I apply it manually if I need it and it comes off automatically when I press the accelerator.

 

Mines an automatic too, it always engages the handbrake when I stop.
JPB, no offence was intended re the pressing of the switch. Believe me we get dafter things said on here buddy.

Sorry about that, it was my bad! When I read it again I realized it came out wrong. I was just trying to make sure that the message was clear... on my mobile while trying to stop a 3 and a 6 year old from thrashing the entire place

 

twodogs, I have the same car as you but in my car the hill start works well but the parking brake is not automatic when I stop the car.

Sounds like I need a visit to Renault service...

 

Yes, tell them to plug a diag tool and set it to 'nordic mode' - every time the engine's turned off the EPB should engage automatically. Nothing serious, not a real issue.

 

So, is it possible to change the settings in the hand brake so that it automatically engages when I stop the car?

Thanks!

OK my car is an automatic, but every time I press the engine STOP button, the parking brake engages automatically. When I drive off, it releases. Nothing else. On a hill, engine running, I have to engage it manually if I need to. I drive with both feet but the car actually prefers me to use the handbrake for a hill start, both in forward and reverse.

EDIT: Maybe I don't have a hill start capability - or it never worked (nothing in the driver's manual)

 

Davegayle, I mean PULL the rocker switch. I know how to turn it on and off. I am not accidentally turnjng it off.

Dancingdad, you got it right, "if hill assist kicks in because on a hill, the parking brake side does not apply automatically when engine turned off."

Thank you all for helping out!

 

In the grand scenic 3, is the parking brake supposed to automatically engage when I press the button to stop the engine?

If that's the case then I have an issue, I always need to pull the parking brake button to engage the parking brake.

 

OP keeps saying “press” the handbrake button. On the series 3, it’s a rocker switch and you pull it up (probably like S2) towards you.
Could the op mistakenly be turning the handbrake off?

 

Thanks for your prompt replies.

I'm not sure it's a design flaw or rather bad design. One could argue that one always had to pull the hand brake before they became automatic so the same applies, just in this case one must pull the button. For anyone not having a grand scenic, there is a parking brake button/lever that one must pull to engage the parking brake. It's not an "old lever but more like a small button.

The issue is that it is very easy to forget to engage the brake if when one takes the feet from the pedals the brake is engaged... except that it's the hill and not the parking.

So, it would be great if one could simply set it so that when I press the stop button the parking brake automatically engaged.

 

Hmmm
Sounds like a design fault to me ?

Let's put in an automatic parking brake system that automatically engages when the driver switches of the engine.
Except when they are parked on a hill ?????

 

Didn't have that, EPB always auto-engaged, braking power adjusted to the steepness of the slope the car stood on. And always, always in gear.

 

You would need to have the hill start deactivated, this is not a design fault..Hill start and parking brake completely different systems, used by the same computer
Hand brake applies the motor and a sensor stops the motors moving when stopped, and keeps applying force for when the discs cool down otherwise the car would be running away if left on a hill.
Hill start uses info sent over the multiplex system to hold the brakes on, from engine load, to someone sitting in the drivers seat, door being closed and not opened, and to allow auto release when clutch or brake pedal is released .